Unfortunately,
metal in its free state—a nice steel stake or a solid brass
candlestick—represented a high level of order, and Nature was slatternly and
preferred disorder. The crumble of rust. The promiscuity of molecules in solution.
The chaos of warm things. States of disorder were vastly more likely to arise
spontaneously than were cubes of perfect iron. According to the Second Law of
Thermodynamics, much work was required to resist this tyranny of the
probable—to force the atoms of a metal to behave themselves.
There isn´t much to add to a text like this, so full of “synalephas”, as a friend of my brother’s calls metaphors and any literary resources. I just want to point this out to my beloved readers. I always quote the books´ writers, but never the authors who created the scientific theory in question. I noticed this not long ago and I think it´s due to that tendency nowadays which makes you believe that the authorship of an artwork entails a bigger grade of possession for its author than a scientific law does. In other words, there´s no Teddy Bautista in charge of collecting money for Einstein´s heirs or for any other heir of any scientist when anyone uses their discoveries.
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