Physics predicts that disorder always increases because a heat-engine law requires it, so our universe should be pretty chaotic by now, but as Strogatz points out:
“Scientists have often been baffled by the existence of spontaneous order in the universe. The laws of thermodynamics seem to dictate the opposite, that nature should inexorably degenerate toward a state of greater disorder, greater entropy. Yet all around us we see magnificent structures—galaxies, cells, ecosystems, human beings—that have all somehow managed to assemble themselves.” (Strogatz, 2003).
If disorder always increases, how did billions of years of randomization produce the present order? If you woke up in a warm bed with an electric blanket, would you believe that humanity has been devolving since we lived in caves? It doesn’t make sense, so either the prediction is wrong or some other principle is opposing it.
QR5.6.1. Is Energy Conserved?
QR5.6.2. What Is Conserved?
QR5.6.3. Disorder is Probable
QR5.6.4. Order is Possible
QR5.6.5. Evolution Creates Order
QR5.6.6. Armageddon