The current story arc started with this strip: Healthy Cookies, Part 1.
This is my favorite single panel of Sandra and Woo so far. 🙂
There are new wallpapers of the following single panels on our exclusive page for donators:
- Woo Jumps to a Conclusion, Part 2 (1st panel)
- Dirty Lobbying (1st panel)
- Kissus Interruptus (1st and 2nd panel)
- Bahamut ONE (5th panel)
- Moonlight Sonata (1st panel)
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics (4th panel)
- Sandra: Hi Larisa. Why so happy?
- Larisa: I found the meaning of life!
- Sandra: Really?! Which is?
- Larisa: Are you familiar with the second law of thermodynamics?
- Sandra: It’s got something to do with energy, right?
- Larisa: Pretty much. It postulates that every process tends to increase the entropy of the universe. Which means that everything’s going to end in total chaos!
- Sandra: And how is that related to the meaning of life?
- Larisa: The meaning of life is to make it happen faster, of course!
- Sandra: This explains everything.
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all hail kaos! IA! IA! PH’NGLUI MNG’FHW CTHULHU RL’YEH FHTAGN!
@ kastafox:
Yet.
@ Xian:
wouldn’t that be … chairos? 🙂
My understanding of entropy is that if unchecked it would lead to a universe of uniform temperature and density. Essentially dead. This can’t happen in a universe that will contract down to protomatter again.
I’ll pretend not to understand. Because, in reality, I do not understand.
Entropy is when there is a completely even distribution of energy. Basically, the universe becomes an infinite expanse of gray. Of course when this happens, all life will be long dead of energy loss. To speed up entropy is to end the universe in such a way that only a freak accident could start a new one.
sun tzu wrote:
OK, I can accept that
but as a student of Biotechnology, I also know that life has the property to redirect energy to reduce entropy.
So the meaning of life maybe isn’t to increase entropy and reducing chaos, but reducing entropy and creating chaos
Go on, Larisa
@ DragonTrainer:
DragonTrainer wrote:
And i will be sure to tell All my friends about Sandra and Woo as well its to awesome to ignore 😀
XKCD THANKYOU VERY MUCH! ha ha ha lol @ Professional Mole:
larisa really needs to read the principia dischordia. you all need to read the principia dischordia!
Yes, Sandra. Yes, it does ^^
Chaos isn’t what she thinks it is…
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Funnily enough, I was 11 when I independently discovered Nihilism… and she isn’t TOO far off. I started with the whole “meaning of life” thing too, since it was treated like some sort of big mystery, but it took me all of a few days at most to realise that life was without purpose, and that the very concept of purpose (or “meaning” in that context) was just an absurd human fabrication.
AND funnily enough, that led me to rapidly lose interest in the consequences of my actions.
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Of course my understanding of Nihilism has gone a long way since those days… almost two decades ago. Well beyond the point where it could be explained to anyone not already of at least partial understanding. Does tend to lend credibility to the stereotype of Nihilists as self-destructive nutcases though…
@ coolio person:No. She’s an A-Bomb that just keeps going and going and going and…
Anyway… the point I’d initially intended to make when posting my previous comment… is that the heat-death of the Universe wouldn’t be “chaos” at all. The end result would be all matter in the Universe being completely evenly and uniformly distributed throughout all the available space (not that much of said space would be taken up by baryonic matter anyway).
Packie wrote:
Um, no. It’s possible to reduce entropy locally, but the total entropy of a closed system always increases. There are no exceptions for “life”.
Those kids sure are smart, as always in comics. Then again, we’ve got a talking raccoon, so maybe I should let this slide. 😉
The increasing entropy of the Universe would actually create the opposite of chaos. It’s a theory referred to as “Heat death”, where heat would spread evenly across the entire universe. However, the universe would continue to spread, so galaxies would spread further and further apart, before collapsing, and the stars would draw far from each other, until all stars had destroyed themselves in supernova, and the atoms themselves would eventually grow lonely, massive distances from each other.
However, I don’t personally follow this theory, but it was covered by YouTube channel: Kurz Gesagt – In a Nutshell.
They are a pretty good science channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q
After a whole year of chemistry I finally understand this comic fully. I’m so happy