Book 2: Post 2

Hey everyone, I know you have all been in the dark as to what I have been reading lately. I have been extremely busy, with out of state trips and bundles of homework (again). But throughout, I have stuck with it, and that I have to owe to Brian Greene. He wrote my second book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and his writing has kept the pages flipping. So far, I have learned about different theories, mainly about the nature of space and time. I have learned that space is not just empty; it acts more like a stretchable fabric. In fact, gravity is actually caused by heavy objects that warp space. The moon stays in orbit around the Earth because it rolls around a curve in the warp of space made by the Earth. I have to say, I was pretty amazed when I read this. I also learned about a concept called entropy, which is the amount of disorder in the world. In the book, Greene discusses that time seems to flow towards further disorder (egg splatters, glasses break apart) because there are so many more disorderly arrangements of the stuff in the materials that break. For example, Greene states that in the book War and Peace, “a little calculation shows that there are … - about 10¹⁸⁷⁸ – out-of-order page arrangements” (Greene 153). I feel this disproves the discussion we had in class about theories being fact or fiction. I feel this is fact because it is backed up by everyday experience. There are so many disorderly arrangements of materials that we, as humans, never see eggs unsplatter and coalesce into a normal egg again. I hope you all are as amazed by this as I am. This book has wowed me so much already, which probably means it will completely blow my mind later. Stay tuned for more theoretical fun!