The law of conservation of mass and energy • The new law is called the law of conservation of mass and energy. • We could look at mass as just very high frequency energy. • Radiation is disassociative while collection is associative. The whole system is limited and finite. "UNIVERSE" is the minimum perpetual motion machine. • Humanity is a subsystem and a local pattern. • Local patterns have to be in phase. • For instance, copper from Northern Michigan in your spinach will make you healthy • while Copper in other ways will kill you as a poison, which is out of phase. All patterns continually reassociate. Let's get back to Hoyle and how nature increases: The law of quanta says that when there is a high probability then there are fewer starts; while a low probability of survival means a high number of starts. • In colonial days America's birth rate was high. • Each family averaged 13 babies. • 1 and 1/2 percent more girls were born in Serbia for 100 years on the average; and then after the war this switched to 1 and 1/2 percent more boys. The Play's the Thing We have always thought of the Universe as a play that we watched. Now we are a part of it. • Man is essential to Universe. • Someone or thing will carry on universe if we don't. • There must be a cushion factor somewhere. • An example is the overlap between our use of atomic fuels and the waste of our natural fuels. • The big question is: WHAT SHOULD MAN BE DOING HERE IN UNIVERSE? WHAT IS MAN DOING HERE IN UNIVERSE? Norbert Weiner and Cybernetics One idea of how to function comes from Norbert Weiner. • He came to the conclusion, "that man is the most important anti-entropic functioner in the universe," about the same time I did. • The earth is a small spaceship. • The equator speeds around at 1000 miles and hour and • The whole planet speeds around the sun at a speed of a million miles a day. • The rim speed of rotation of our galaxy is tremendous and • the speed of the whole galaxy traveling through space is phenomenal. Non-simultaneity

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