It’s time for a national conversation about entropy production in gravitational collapse. For reasons no one knows, there’s more matter than anti-matter in the universe. This “excess” matter warps the fabric of spacetime and falls in on itself. The gravitational collapse forces energy to hurtle outward; this is the nature of a dissipative system, a category which includes all of the phenomena we find interesting in the universe—stars, planets, bodies. In an otherwise unremarkable solar system at the edge of a commonplace galaxy among several hundred million galaxies in the universe, the availability of free energy from the gravitational collapse of a star has borne a unique kind of dissipative system: life. You couldn’t make this stuff up. Are you ready, my people? If we live, we live to tread on kings. A
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