Chaos,Anarchy,and Beauty

Clausius and carnot, in the middle of last century, formulated the entropy law, or second law of thermodynamics. Entropy, in essence, was the degree of randomness, or chaos of a system. Chaos that is every increasing and uncontrollable. In theory, the very words you are reading now, is ever increasing chaos.

Scientists found chaos so alluring,so fascinating, that they dedicated an entire class of scientific persuasion is dedicated to studying chaos, also referred to as The Butterfly Effect. We have all heard the old wives tale, how a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a hurricane elsewhere. Choas, it turns out, has distinct order to it. And we have found that, despite all the complexities and randomness of nature and world we live in, there is still beauty to be found in it.Laws we have been taught to accept, Ohm's Law and the kinetic theory of gases are descriptions of a large number of micro events, each of which are random , and none of which is entire predictable. The mathematical theory of probability arose from the need to give randomness a shape.

It is in fact, down to pure random chance, the humans ourselves came into being. The primordial soup, as they say, was made in the perfect kitchen.It is pure random chance that the right ingredients were in the right place, at the right time, in the right amounts, with the right catalyst, and with the right environment. And then came you. Natures' natural selection, a prime example of working chaos, has ensured that it is our species that evolved in the way it did, to bring us here. Take a good look at the mirror, and remark at the beauty of chaos, and its inimitable ways. To this date, scientists employ randomness in Genetic Algorithms to recreate natures' holy chaos.

Humans have been fascinated by chaos to such a degree, that they become enamoured by it. That they revel in being part of the infinte chaos. Dice games, and gambling, all were created to satiate the appetite humans have for randomness. Random number generators are increasingly used by computers for data encryption, selecting random samples from large data sets.

The theory of chaos has always fascinated humans. It appears we are all just 6 year old children, playing with a test tube of unknown chemicals, just to see what turns out.

Anarchists believe that in the absense of a government or ruling body, in the resulting chaos, common sense would prevail, allowing people to come together to form a functional society. They belived that despite all the randomness, there would still be functional order.

Randomness has even been introduced in music, generating arbitrary sounds to imbibe an ambient effect, a genre referred to as post-modern.

A popular cult-comic character, The Joker, an arch nemesis, of Batman, claimed himself to be an agent of chaos. He believed, that there was never really justice in the justice system, and only true fairness was to be found in blind chance, the toss of coin. The plain glee with which the anarchist explained his philosophy found an admirer of choas, in me. And got me to write this article.