Interessante citater #1 : Zombier i Roadside Picnic

01.01.0001 | litteratur

Min serie om sjove citater morfer over i en serie om interessante citater. Og sikkert tilbage igen en anden gang. Men på side 141 i Roadside Picnic:

Valentine gave a careless wave. "Oh, you and your corpses..."" he said. "Listen, Richard, aren’t you ashamed of yourself? After all, you're an educated man. Do you really not see that from the perspective of fundamental principles, these corpses of yours are neither more nor less astonishing than the perpetual batteries? It’s just that the spacells violate the first principle of thermodynamics, and the corpses, the second; that's the only difference. In some sense, we're all cavemen - we cant imagine anything more frightening than a ghost or a Vampire. But the violation of the principle of causality - that's actually much scarier than a whole herd of ghosts . . . or Rubinstein's monster ... or is that Wallenstein?" "Frankenstein"

Altså laws of thermodynamic? Find dem her: Laws of Thermodynamics. Noget i stil med

1. Den første lov siger noget om at et lukket system der arbejder, taber energi. Altså ingen evighedsmaskiner.
2. Den anden lov siger noget om at varme ikke spontant kan overføres fra et koldt til et varmt legeme.

Nok om de love. Citatet er interessant, synes jeg, fordi det siger noget om det irrationelle ved vores frygt/fascination/opmærksomhed. At vi sikkert er mere bange for en mørk kælder en for feks. klimakrisen.

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