About 80 years or so ago, a Catholic priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin risked accusations of heresy by saying man and life were evolving toward greater complexity and consciousness. This was balanced, he believed, by the simultaneous cooling of the universe, the observed increase in entropy.
As entropy pushes galaxies toward a random scatter, small pockets become ever more organized, from amoeba to man to whatever is next, families, tribes and cities. As the universe expands and cools, small points of complexity evolve to keep the overall in some sort of metaphysical balance. That the sum total is …zero.
Is it possible the big bang was the eruption of nothing more than a tightly bound moment of organization? That there is another law of conservation, the law conservation of complexity, of organization, of information?
And if there is a balance of matter and energy, of complexity and entropy, is it possible that the fourth (if only four) dimension, time, obeys the same law? That time itself can be intensely organized at one place, balanced by an "entropy of time" in another? That time itself is not smooth, though it may have an arrow, but is lumpy and rough?
Where that occurs I can't imagine, because I can't say without laughing that time might be disorganized at some point … in time. That time is holding itself, stands apart from itself as it contains what it is and what it is not.
What is the temperature of time?
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