Butterfly Effect Phenomenon or something like it

[Mel Asher]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Free will is an illusion. If Einstein is correct (and his theories haven't failed a test yet) then time is merely another dimension. In which case the future already exists, we just cannot perceive it from our position in spacetime.

Why can't we perceive it yet and remember the future? Because the 2nd law of thermodynamics means that the chemical reactions that create memories in our brains only work in one direction in time.

Sorry TracyCoxx, but you are borrowing concepts from one area of science and using them to postulate an idea in another.

The second law of thermodynamics ( for the benefit of readers who haven't come across it ) basically states that Heat Transfer through a physical medium always results in a loss of energy, however small, e.g. Work-in does not equal Work-out.

Apat from the fact that the chemistry of synapses which must be involved in the transfer of memory from one location to another is still really not very well understood, let alone the amounts of heat involved in the transition process, stored memory in the brain appears to operate on an entirely different principle. So while it can be destroyed by applied heat, its existence may not depend on the levels of hat within the cranial cavity. A simple example is that of Brain-cooling to enhance a surgical procedure. Unless the temperature change is really extreme, the individual's recall is relatively undiminished.

As far as Chemical Reactions go, as I am sure you already know, there is a multitude of examples of Reversible Reactions resulting in clearly functional products.

If the future involves, as you seem to be saying, a vector process in the Time dimension, then there is absolutely no reason why the vectors involved should not assume negatives values of some sort.

Personally I am not convinced that Einsteinian concepts should be identified so casually with Chemical or Physiological processes.

Perhaps you would care to expand your ideas a little more ?

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by Mel Asher

Sorry TracyCoxx, but you are borrowing concepts from one area of science and using them to postulate an idea in another.

The second law of thermodynamics ( for the benefit of readers who haven't come across it ) basically states that Heat Transfer through a physical medium always results in a loss of energy, however small, e.g. Work-in does not equal Work-out.

Actually, for your benefit , the 2nd law of thermo states that the entropy of an isolated system that is not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time. And in a closed or complete system, you will not lose energy. The change in work you're talking about is in the 1st law.

Originally Posted by Mel Asher

Perhaps you would care to expand your ideas a little more ?

Ok, what I'm trying to say is that every physical process is reversible. If you recorded a movie of marbles bouncing around, or roller coasters or acrobats, or pretty much anything, and you play it backwards, you will not find anything that violates the laws of physics. Like the example in an earlier post where I talked about an egg falling in reverse. It's all physically fine in reverse.

When watching the movie backwards, you may think there's a lot of odd coincidences happening, like ripples in water coincidentally converging right where a rock just happens to fly out of the water. That is the only odd thing about running physical processes backwards, and that's because of the 2nd law.

The reason entropy always increases as time moves forward isn't because of any mysterious property of time. It's because at the time of the big bang, the universe was in an incredibly organized state. It's entropy was at a minimum. So the only thing that could happen from then on is dynamics that increased entropy.

Now, as I said the chemical reactions in your brain that create memories obey the 2nd law as well. So memories created are the result of past events. The process in reverse may be physically possible as long as an incredible amount of conditions are perfect for each and every memory recorded, but it's astronomically improbable.