Entropy

Entropy

Marlene Gonzalez
ENC 1101-10am

ENTROPY - by Author K.C. Cole
She has written several books and is currently a science writer and editor at the L.A. Times.   She was born in 1946. Cole has contributed articles on science to numerous national publications and has written a regular column for Discovery Magazine and her essay are collected in Sympathetic Vibrations.

Do you or others around you consider yourselves an orderly or disorderly people? Two months ago.   K.C. Cole realized that entropy was getter the best of her.   On the day she noticed that her refrigerator and car has broken down.   And her window keeps leaking, her baby sister is unreliable, her hair is turning gray and she needs a root-canal, among other things.
Of course, the more things go wrong the harder it is.   She explains that entropy is no laughing matter, because with every increase in entropy energy is wasted and opportunity is lost.   Energy is not really lost, but it has defused and dissipated in to chaos that can do us no good.   Entropy is chaos and loss of purpose.
It is easy to see entropy in marriages, when the partners has no time to patch things up and the marriage ends up falling apart.   Another example of entropy is in the state of our country, lost opportunities between other nations to stop avalanches of disorders that seem to swallow us all.
  Like anything else, things can get worse when we stop applying our efforts and energies to them.   That’s why it’s so hard to get ourselves together and so easy to let ourselves fall apart, but with a little time effort we can turns things around.