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I'm going to tell you some things about the spaceship you live on, called Earth And about some of its passengers First, I'd like you to meet the Captain Gather around sailors and listen to me And I'll tell you about Captain Entropy Entropy is something that happens It's so important, it functions something like a captain Captain Entropy commands the Earth and sky and sea Moving, flowing, strong and free Partly human, partly mean Children all know entropy, because kids are full of energy They give their energy where there is little or none And work begins, and work is done But hеre's what I mean Do this right now: Take any objеct from a table or shelf and slowly place it onto the floor Go ahead now Good Feel the pull of gravity on your body and on the object Pretend to fight gravity Pretend the object is very heavy But you are strong and you can handle it Now lie down on the floor beside the object and try to shape your body to resemble its contours Now I want you to carefully pick up the object and lift it slowly That's right Fight gravity with all your might and return the object to the exact place you took it from Like a movie running in reverse You have just made magic Your energy has flowed through your hands and you have caused an object to rise Even though gravity wanted it to return to the floor By now you can feel that entropy involves a flow of energy When entropy is around, energy flows from a point where it is more concentrated to a place where it is less concentrated People call the existence of entropy the laws of thermodynamics Now I want you all to get up off the floor and half of you stand over here And I want the other half of you to stand over here for two groups, one in front of each speaker Now we're going to demonstrate what people mean by entropy Hey, you over here, you're a coffee pot, you're a bubble and you're boiling hot Move your bodies to coffee boils and twist and steam as it flies in coils Now you over here, you're a lump of ice, you're stiff and cold but kind of nice Move your body in a firm position because of the condition of your frozen condition That's right now, ice lump, you slide over to the coffee pot In coffee pot, you boil your way over to the ice lump, nice and slow And both of you connect and do just what comes naturally The coffee in the pot stops boiling and stands still and the ice lump changes shape and melts on the floor Cold energy flows from the cold ice lump into the coffee pot, which could jump Energy flowed from the coffee pot and changed the ice to warm or hot This natural flow of energy which balances things for you and me, commands the earth and sky and sea And it is led by Captain Entropy The path of entropy leads everywhere because energy seems to keep on evening itself out You work or play all day and your energy runs down and you eat food and energy from that food flows into you Well, what if someday, entropy's command becomes so great that everything stops? What if energy distributes itself so well that everything is equal everywhere? Would this mean that spaceship earth would stop or maybe land somewhere? Well, here's the answer: If you love to love and if you love to move and be, you may decide to go on to something else You might just rest your body and use the power of your mind to think and dream and imagine and fly Maybe if all physical things came to a stand still, maybe your thoughts and dreams would still go on forever To other ships and other universes until the very entropy of your mind came home again and again and again and again (Music) Well the air leaks out of a big balloon While a monkey smiles and a laughing moon And a flower loves a parasite While enemies forget to fight And a witch in a garden laughs as she Takes a spell from you and me And gives it to a galaxy that waits for Captain Entropy Well the air leaks out of a big balloon While a monkey smiles and a laughing moon And a flower loves a parasite While enemies forget to fight And a witch in a garden laughs as she Takes a spell from you and me And gives it to a galaxy that waits for Captain Entropy (Music)