I've been thinking a lot about the nature of the universe. Wow, that was deep. No, seriously, why isn't the universe one uniform lump of matter and energy? The laws of entropy seem to dictate that the universe is just a giant battery whose charge is running down. It's only a matter of time before all order collapses into chaos. Just think of all the factories on earth. Each one is creating a small piece of order by generating massive amounts of chaos. Why don't we have an outraged environmental group concerned about squandering order? And how did order get here in the first place? The secret of the universe seems to lie in the separations. Somehow within a single cell, all the chemicals floating in the cytoplasm are prevented from reacting by microscopic barriers. Somehow energy is bottled up behind dams for release on cue. Why is the universe divided up into domains like this? It would make so much more sense for matter and energy to be mixed, the whole of existence just one giant amalgam of everything. Hmmm, must ponder this...need food...more thoughts later.   ¶ 7:34 PM