Ecosystems are hopelessly complicated. The sheer number of variables influencing any single ecosystem process is staggering; each one has a distinct role to play in that process. Remove one, and the whole thing changes. Now when you think about all the ecosystem processes, happening in an around every […]
Earth’s ecosystems survive because of it’s complexity and diversity. This complexity and diversity has developed over the course of millions of years, millions of interactions, both successful and failed. The two main factors for diversity are time and imperfection. Imperfection stems from how our DNA replicates. DNA replication is […]
The third law of thermodynamics states (in effect) that “entropy in the universe is always increasing”. Entropy is the degree of randomness in any system. It’s a concept in favor of simplicity. Everything in the universe is moving from complex to simple situations. For example, within a star, Hydrogen atoms […]
