¶ Universe
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Universe:
"The physicists began to demonstrate very effectively that the perpetual motion machine wouldn’t work because they were always losing energy and so the local system was always running down. What the physicists, however, did when they posited energy universe, the Law of Conservation of Energy: no energy can be created and no energy can be lost, they developed universe as the first and only successful perpetual motion machine.
“In other words universe is the minimum perpetual motion machine. There is a minimum set of patterns that is a consequence of this set of patterns reacting with that set of patterns. In order to have a monkey wrench you also have got to have a store, and in order to have a store you have to have other things. You have to have all the great complex of events and we get then to a minimum set of complementary events where the system then regenerates itself and we come to what we might call universe. It is interesting then to discover that this tends to be a clearly defined inventory of relative abundance of the various chemical element patterns in the universe so that you need then a great deal of the pattern hydrogen and you don’t need so much of the pattern uranium.”
