Thermodynamics and green leaves
After consecutively getting bad grades in thermodynamics tests for the last God knows how many times, I think the subject demands some respect; which is why I'm going to write something about it here.
Thermodynamics.Hm. The most basic scientific way of trying to make sense of everything that goes on in the universe. Sounds interesting that way,no? And yet when you study it, you find it's so...so constrained. Every law seems to start with 'It is impossible to...'. By the time you've done with it, you're left with a miserable feeling of how pointless it is to make heat engines and generate any sort of power from nature; because no matter what, you'll always end up losing most of it to nature again, with the added discomfort of making the air a bit warmer and the world a bit dirtier.
Thermodynamics tells you how to make life practical, by taking advantage of this wonderful and once peaceful world that God's given to us fools. We fail to realize that the earth is a closed system and whatever waste we throw away will come back to us; and we won't be able to put it into space because by that time there won't be enough trees to make currency to pay for the space flights. So sooner or later, it's all gonna catch up with us.
Maybe we should all just go back to the caves; with the streams and the flowers, and green leaves covering our privates.
Watching the world deteriorate itself before my eyes, I'm reminded of a poem I read in school and find myself crying out these lines-
"Open the windows, Son, and let me go back to Sun and Air, even sweat and flies and all, but not this. Not this"
