“Insert d”, page 5
d.5 d.1 Another modality of action of the matter.
d.2 Useful values of the angular movement.
d.3 Other features of the “action d”.
d.4 “Action d” and thermodynamic balances.
d.5 Effects of the “action d” on the Earth.
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Effects of the “action d” on the Earth.
.1 In the solar system, complexity seems to be increasing on the Earth, but not on the other planets.
.2 Essentially, that was the non verbatim consideration expressed by Monica Grady, some years ago, during a broadcast of BBC radio 4, led by the moderator Melvyn Brag, in the the series “In our time”, whose topic was then the 2nd Law of thermodynamics.
.3 The first part of the remark was promptly explained as usual: the low level entropy, attained on our planet, is at the expense of the Sun.
.4 As for the difference with the other planets, that was completely passed over.
A possible reason.
.5 Now, an answer could be given, also to the second part of the observation, of the first paragraph of this page.
.6 The complexity here on the Earth would be due to the type 2 dissipative reactions, which, thanks to the Moon, are taking place only on our planet, in extremely large number.
Commonplace here on Earth.
The Earth, seen from the Moon (courtesy by NASA).
.7 The “type 2 dissipative reactions” are commonplace on our planet, making it possible for our Earth to be a place suitable for life, a fact which, at least as far as we are concerned, is unique, and, in practice, will remain unique.
.8 The “type 2 dissipative reactions” would contribute to keep the Earth at a very low entropy level.
The Earth with no Moon.
.9 It would be otherwise if we had not one moon, so large, so close.
On the question of the exo-planets.
.10 Once accepted the theory of the “action d”, one can reasonably infer that, in order that an exo-planet be apt to have and maintain living beings, it should have what is commonly called a satellite, of adequate mass, whose movements are to keep in check the entropy of the various systems in that planet. It would be a conditio sine qua non.
.11 Indeed, I would prefer to call such celestial body, not a satellite, but a co-planet, since its presence is essential for that hypothetical exo-planet to sustain life.
See also insert L: the Moon, satellite or co-planet?
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