Entropy is the rule of the nature. It explains the overall increase in disorder in a system. As is stated by the second law of thermodynamics, the overall entropy of the system must only increase. Entropy tends to be maximized i.e., the disorder tends to increase in the system over time. A parallel can be drawn from here to the various illnesses that strike us. These illnesses are in a way, ‘disorder’ brought into our ‘system’ (body). The body, however, has its own mechanism to deal with the un-sought disorder, and it restores ‘order’ within the system. Or so to say, the equilibrium state is reached when the body resumes its normal state of operations. In a sense, it can be understood that there is a continuous interaction of any system with its external environment. This leads to the entropy of the system being affected, i.e., disorder being generated. Finally, through the internal processes, the system fights back to equilibrium.
So, we can say that the equilibrium state or the steady state is the mean µ and the disorder (entropy) affecting this µ can be termed as variations in the system’s steady state. In other words, σ. The whole system can be explained by these two parameters. The system tends to be at µ, whereas externalities tend to take it to µ+nσ. When n becomes very large, the system breaks down and µ becomes meaningless. As an example, take the human body again. When the disorder is of a very high magnitude, the body is not able to recover from this illness and breaks down. This phenomenon is called Death. Death takes the system to the final equilibrium state, where µ converges to σ. However, this is not a desirable state of existence for any system. The ideal state of existence is when n=0, i.e., σ is eliminated.
How can σ be eliminated? Rather, can σ be eliminated? To answer this question, we ought to know what exactly causes σ. Statistically speaking, σ is the variation term from the mean. The variations are due to inability of the system to maintain the mean level. Let us zoom in a little further to the particle level. System is composed of particles. These particles move about in a random manner when in a free-state, as long as no external force is applied. In fact Brownian Motion is one of the most simplest continuous-time stochastic processes. We can then say that this random motion produces a condition of chaos. In other words, chaos can be considered to be the “disorder” or the entropy in the system. Thus, we come to the root cause of all the entropy – random motion of the particles. Therefore, “order” can be brought about in the system, by attacking the root cause – the particles.
What would have to be done to reduce this disorder? As the word itself states, to bring “order”, we need to induce discipline in the motion. The proposition here now is to polarize the particles in one direction. As a result of unidirectional polarity, there will be uniform motion of the particles. There will be no collisions and no chaos, no disorder. The entropy of the system would effectively be contained. Extrapolating this situation to a larger scale, we can say that since the randomness is contained, the quantum of variances will come down significantly. As variance comes down, σ will automatically tend towards zero. The System will tend to remain in a state of µ, also known as steady state.
A corollary to the above is that the system becomes predictable at different instances of time as there is effectively no variance factor anymore.
So, we can come to a conclusion that the key to attaining the Equilibrium State of Living is the disciplining and aligning of the systemic particles. It can also be inferred that the disorder in a system can be reduced or eliminated by enforcing discipline by polarization. Thus, the systemic disorders could be handled with more certainty. Speaking on a much broader perspective, the ultimate Disorder of the Human Body System could also be possibly reduced by polarizing the particles in the body. Similarly, this concept of “Order by Polarizing” can be applied to any system (body) which can undergo any kind of unrecoverable changes.
All of the above is just a hypothesis. There are many laws governing the physics of system and thermodynamics of the particles, which this hypothesis might not have considered. A very naive caveat here is the application of external polarizer to discipline the system. That itself might act as a pro-entropy measure. What this thesis therefore comes to say is we apply external effect – which leads to an increase in entropy – to reduce the internal disorder. This seems like a contradiction in itself. However, since Contradictions should not exist, we need to check our premises upon which this basis is made. The external effect is kind of a conditioner which would stimulate our entropy-reduction process. Though, initially the amount of entropy would seem to increase, however, upon the completion of the “Ordering”, the overall entropy should have come down. Secondly, we do not know with certainty as to what is the magnitude of the polarizer needed to bring about order from the chaos. It might as well prove to be costlier than the supposedly accruing benefit of steady state.
