Monday, March 17, 2014

Relating TOK with Chemistry

In chemistry, we recently learned about entropy. This is the concept that the universe tends towards disorder rather than order. If you take this out of a science context, it can be related to TOK slightly. I think people have been trying to establish order into the world bit by bit over time. Buildings, telephones, cars, etc. All technological advancements are proof of this. Even the fact that the idea of entropy was created is evidence of this, since it is a scientific advancement. But if you look at the definition of entropy, that the universe tends towards a disordered state, does that mean that humans are unnatural beings? We try to bring more order into this world, thinking that it will probably be better that way. However, according to this law, we are breaking the natural way of how the universe tends to be in disorder rather than order.

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