Lullabies of the String

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“Boltzman discovered that physics and thermodynamics are two sides of the same coin (in fact, a physical theory like superstring theory is undefined without the laws of thermodynamics). As physical matter (superstrings) becomes more harmonious, entropy increases. The will-to-harmony and entropy are inseparable.

They are the crests and troughs of the same wave: It seems obvious after seeing the bottom graph why everything we experience in this universe seems to move in cycles. Spring, summer, fall, winter. Birth, adolescence, adulthood, death. Good fortune then bad fortune then good fortune then bad. We live in a cyclical universe.

But is the harmony/entropy wave not also a graphical expression of the tiniest building block of our universe: the vibrating superstring? Superstring theory claims that from the most cosmic to the most minute level, from the Milky way to Planck’s length (10-33cm), we live in a wave-composed universe which we (each one of us!) can only experience as stuff (discrete particles) arranged in wavelike patterns.”

Quantum theory tells us that even presence itself is a wave— of probability.

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