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Wow: The Last Wow:
“Eddington’s Proof of Irreversibility: A box of wooden matches dumped on the table. Each one splinters the other a little; therefore there are little hairs sticking out. They could never be put back in the box in the same way without pressing, i.e., without investing more energy. (Here operates the law of the increase of the random element.) The cycle keeps on, time and again, from dust to atoms to proton to neutron… This is what nature is doing: pulsating ;… highs and low pressures… maximal dispersal, and then reassociation, because of regeneration: 100 million years later they’ll all be back in the box again… at the last Wow!”
