Theories of the Universe

So I think a lot. I think about why people do what they do, why people are what they are, what this place is that people occupy and how it works. I think about the laws of nature sometimes too. There’s this old rule of a battle between entropy and enthalpy, order vs. Chaos. Supposedly the universe has a tendency towards chaos. This makes order seem like it has to be enacted by a conscious force as the universe isn’t going to organize and clean itself. Or is it?

I am proposing a new sort of opposition. An opposition that is combative and supportive of itself. I propose there is a battle between simplification and complications.

What made me think of this is thinking about how a person’s mind works and trying to find a way to apply it to the universe. Here is my thought process.

1. I believe understanding something makes it simpler, or more ordered, if you will. It relieves stress on a mind.

2. To understand something I often have to make new comparisons, add knowledge, or rethink other ideas. Oftentimes understanding something makes it simpler for us, but means we have to look at it at a more complex level.

3. This adds complexity, complexity re-ads the stress understanding created, and further understanding is required to relieve it.

4. In this way understanding(simplification) breeds complexity.

I will apply this to a simple real world application. Back in the day we took Atoms as little balls, but didn’t understand them. To understand them we looked at them closer and found they are made up of smaller parts, we understood the ball, but now we needed to understand the smaller parts. We try to understand the smaller parts and find out they are once again made of still smaller parts. Trying to understand and simplify the atomic balls forced the balls themselves becoming more complex in our minds yet also simpler.

I don’t know if this is applicable to how the universe works or how the mind works to understand the universe or act within it. I would appreciate thoughts on whether my logic is flawed, or how to apply it to other situations.