Energy
Why
is the 'perpetual motion' impossible? Why can't a system function
indefinitely in its fence? In 1850, Carnot and Clausius stated the
second principle of thermodynamics. Since then we know that any
energy - and what is not 'energy' in our universe? - is subjected to
its inexorable degradation. A kind of 'original fault' in the very
being of our world.
The
degradation of energy is irreversible.
By taking calorific form - required passage of any energy which is
made 'useful' - energy can never return again in its first form.
It loses part of
its capacity to carry out work. This degradation is irreversible.
That is to say concretely that a closed system, where energy is
obliged to recycle itself so to speak 'in isolation', tends towards a
thermal balance which means its death. This degradation is called
'entropy'. Entropy affects time with an sign of degradation,
dispersion and death. Any effort of creation and development is paid
in entropy. No system can be regenerated in its closing. The whole of
our universe considered as a closed super-system goes gradually
disorganizing itself until its inescapable death.
The
specific
human reality 'functions' like every thing alive in the logic of the
opened systems, between an hot source and a cold well. Hot source of
spiritual energy. Cold well of the negative gaping of the human one.
Between the two, a great difference.
Or a great indifference!
There are also the accumulators
of spiritual energy... quite charged or
flat!
Although of another kind, the spiritual reality such as we can apprehend it,
does not leave the womb of nature. It must thus be possible to
apprehend its operation on the model
of material realities.
Spiritual
energy does not 'function' differently of just energy. The major
reasons of its life and its death are to be found in entropy and
no-entropy. The thermodynamic paradigm sheds light on it. Declines
or rebirths. Tiredness or vitality. Degradation of spiritual energy.
Indifference or going back to a common faith. Badly or well directed
sensors. Empty or full tanks. Possible or impossible recycling. And
so on. Vitality or revivals imply high spiritual energy and
large dynamic no-entropy. Declines
take the slope in the opposite direction.
The 'hot source' is facing the 'cold well' like fullness is facing
emptiness. It is about no-entropy
facing entropy.
In fact they are dialectically antithetic concepts. The hot source
exists only opposite a cold well.
The cold well exists
only opposite an hot source. You
will have to clarify what is concretely
this hot source and this cold well of the human spiritual energy.
The cold
well of the sense, for instance, is not absolutely
'negative'. What would be the life
of the spirit if there were no questions? And what would be a
question which would not rest on an emptiness, in fact an emptiness
of knowing, an ignorance? The dynamics of research and knowledge need
as much emptiness as fullness. It does not go differently with
the engine of the human action which would not turn without the
desire. But what is basically desire if not a poverty calling a
richness?
Tell me your cold well and I will tell you the force which lives in you.
The 'hot source' remains sterile as long as it does not meet,
opposite it, a 'cold well'. Because energy is child of the potential
difference between the two.
Why
does sense die? The answer is obvious. The sense dies when its
energy is degraded for lack of potential difference. Very concretely,
when the challenges
are not taken up any more.
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