Awesomedynamics
Posted by Qrystal on February 16, 2009 at 1:56.
Category: Concepts. Tags: .
The first law of awesomedynamics would be the conservation of awesome…
via @phil.gs
One particularly amusing day in the twitterverse, the word awesomedynamics emerged from somewhere in the vicinity of Wil Wheaton. Phil’s quote, above, caught my attention because it begged the question: what are the rest of the laws of awesomedynamics?!
I set out to answer the question by investigating the laws belonging to a fairly similar concept, thermodynamics. After all, heat, fire, entropy, and other such concepts are pretty awesome, and thus is it really any surprise that the sets of laws describing them are similar?
Including Phil’s insight quoted above, the entire set of Laws of Awesomedynamics can be summarized as follows:
The Zeroth Law of Awesomedynamics:
Interacting bodies eventually reach awesomeness equilibrium.The First Law of Awesomedynamics:
Awesomeness is a conserved quantity (it cannot be created or destroyed, only changed in form).The Second Law of Awesomedynamics:
The amount of awesomeness in a system can only increase, never decrease.The Third Law of Awesomedynamics:
It is impossible to reduce any system to absolutely zero awesomeness.
The First law, in my opinion, is really the one that is most intriguing. After all, it seems that awesomeness is created all the time! However, if this law is correct, maybe all awesomeness is due to the inspiration of some external or internal source of awesomeness (or even a divine source, if you swing that way).
And what if the actual amount of awesomeness in the universe is infinite? Then it would definitely be conserved, even if it increased.
It would be interesting to consider further implications of these laws! Comments are heartily welcomed! :)