If you make instant coffee in a microwave, do you go back in time?!
Answers: Wasnt it 35 seconds later when I asked this? Wasnt it 35 second later when I asked this?
Time passes in a single direction which seems irreversible. This is obvious if we look at how I spill my coffee. I cannot imagine the coffee jumping back into the cup from which it just poured. This is an indication of the direction of time. But how is this described in scientific terms? The word "entropy" describes the amount of chaos in a particular system. If I consider the coffee in the cup as an ordered system and the spilled coffee as disordered, then I can say that I can imagine an ordered system proceeding to a disordered system but not the reverse. I can say from this that entropy is always increasing, that is to say things are becoming more chaotic. If things become less chaotic (under their own control) with the passage of time, then it follows that the time line of the system is in reverse. This my sound rather paradoxical and anyone could see that if I made the coffee from water, grounds, heat and kinetic energy, (and a spot of milk) that I was still going "forward" in time. In reality however I have only delayed the end of time by as long as it took me to make the coffee. But in order to make the ordered coffee I have to create chaos else where and the total amount of chaos in the universe is always increasing.
take me with you...
you know..
to go back in time and all
I always make instant coffee in my microwave.
You have indeed put a tear in the space time continuum.
Thanks a lot.
Who the hell let the dogs out?
