Entropy drives the creation of life?
It seems like this is the outcome of this line of reasoning.
There should be a lot of life out there.
And then the reason we haven't seen any, is because of distance and time, and maybe we are early.
EDIT
Perhaps I'm downvoted because the linked article states the opposite, that Entropy doesn't lead to life. Because life is 'ordered'
I had veritasium on the brain. The veritasium video more clearly shows that life as 'ordered', is a very rare configuration of atoms, and thus 'higher' entropy.
And because entropy always increases, and life increases entropy, that maybe entropy leads to life.
Others linked it, here again since it is worth watching because it somewhat either contradicts, or highlights the gaps in the linked submittal.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxL2HoqLbyA)
Life appears in spite of the 2nd law. The context in which it appears means that life orders its context, so 'feeds off' low entropy. But low entropy environment is not sufficient.
You must have pretty specific causal patterns in the 'primordial soup' for the system to self-organize into 'entropy accelerators' such as life.
Sure. But if the entire Universe is taken as one system, then entropy is increasing. There can be local variations. Maybe life itself is a form of Maxwell's demon.
The veritasium video points out that 'ordered' is very hard to define, since at the beginning of the universe, if we assume the big bang, it was very 'un-ordered' and lowest entropy, and also if we assume the end of the universe is the 'heat death' with all particles diffused evenly, it is also 'un-ordered' and highest entropy. And in-between, if we take 'very ordered' as high entropy, then life is very ordered, a very un-likely state, thus very high-entropy arrangement of particles.
Don't think his video came down on clear explanation, just that 'ordered' is a difficult concept.
EDIT
Perhaps I'm downvoted because the linked article states the opposite, that Entropy doesn't lead to life. Because life is 'ordered'
I had veritasium on the brain. The veritasium video more clearly shows that life as 'ordered', is a very rare configuration of atoms, and thus 'higher' entropy.
And because entropy always increases, and life increases entropy, that maybe entropy leads to life.
Others linked it, here again since it is worth watching because it somewhat either contradicts, or highlights the gaps in the linked submittal. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxL2HoqLbyA)