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George Gilder • George Gilder on knowledge, power, and the economy


The nineteenth-century German physicist Ludwig Boltzmann proposed a daring solution to this problem. Boltzmann suggested that perhaps the universe is, in fact, in a state of overall equilibrium. Nevertheless, by chance alone, there will arise more orderly pockets of disequilibrium here and there (Fig. 3). Boltzmann refers to these isolated regions
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The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of closed physical systems always tends to increase, meaning that systems march from order to disorder. Think of dropping a dash of ink into a glass of clear water. The initial state, the one in which the drop of ink is localized in a gorgeous swirl, is information-rich. There are few ways
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String Theory, Multiverse, and Divine Design - Brian Greene
youtube.comSo, I agree when you say we shouldn’t categorize the economy. We shouldn’t observe the economy and be like, “Oh, that’s a harmonic oscillator.” Yeah. “That’s an Ising model.” No. But we should absorb the data. We should observe the economy, and think in the physicist way of saying, “Okay, this is what I see. Let me think of a way of describing it.”
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