You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan. I'm Jack Logan. Welcome to the ancient tradition.

Today's episode is the terrifying second law of thermodynamics. And if you know anything about the

second law of thermodynamics, you can be occasionally terrifying.

But there's this really special connection between the second law of thermodynamics and this

incomprehensible brooding wind that we've been discussing. So I'm going to do that in this

episode. We're going to connect those two concepts together.

And what you're going to find by the end of this episode is that they really converge and provide

us with this simple yet elegant explanation for the creation of the earth and the origin of life

in the universe. It's pretty neat. And we're going to get to all of that in this episode.

Before I jump in, though, I wanted to let you know that I'm going to be out of the country

during most of July, so our next episode won't drop until the first part of August.

Kind of keep that in mind. I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. They're going to keep

coming. I mentioned towards the end of our previous episode in episode number 13, which was the

incomprehensible brooding wind, that I was going to have a lot more to say about this wind

in this episode. So that's what I'm going to do. If you're a regular listener, or if you're

a new listener and you're just interested in these topics, but you didn't get a chance to listen

to episode number 13 all the way through to the end i highly highly recommend that you do that go back

because it's in the last 15 to 20 minutes of episode number 13 that you're going to start to gain a

foundational understanding of how the creation of the universe and life really came to be. Towards the end of the episode,

you're going to learn what caused the elements to transform, why they transformed,

and how the transformation of the primordial elements set the stage for law and order in the

universe. The last 15 to 20 minutes of episode number 13 really is truly

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