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       THE FOLLOWING IS QUOTED FROM BERGAN EVANS
       ON NORBERT WEINER, NUCLEAR PHYSICIST
       
       The second concept Wiener has to establish is that of entropy.  
       Probability is a mathematical concept, coming from statistics.  
       Entropy comes from physics.  It is the assertion -- established 
       logicallly and experimentally -- that the universe, by its nature, is 
       "running down," moving toward a state of inert uniformity devoid of 
       form, matter, hierarchy or differentiation.
       
           That is, in any given situation, less organization, more chaos, is 
       overwhelmingly more probable than tighter organization or more order.
       
           The tendency for entropy to increase in isolated systems is 
       expressed in the second law of thermodynamics -- perhaps the most 
       pessimistic and amoral formulation in all human thought.
           
           It applies, however, to a closed system, to something that is an 
       isolated whole, not just a part.  Within such systems there may be 
       parts, which draw their energy from the whole, that are moving, at 
       least temporarily, in the opposite direction; in them order is 
       increasing and chaos is diminishing.
       
           The whirlpools that swirl in a direction opposed to the main 
       current are called "enclaves."  And one of them is life, especially 
       human life, which in a universe moving inexorably towards chaos moves 
       toward increased order.
       
       PERSONAL
       PLANETARY PI, which I discovered,
       is 61.  It's a Time-Energy relationship
       existing between sun and inner planets          If the telephone 
       and I use it in arriving at many facts          rings today...
       unknown to science.  For example,               Water it!
       multiply nude earth's circumference            -- Rev. Thomas, Gnostic
       24 902.206 56 by 61 and you get the                       N.Y.C. Cabal
       distance of moon's orbit around the 
       earth.  This is slightly less than 
       actual distance because we have not
       yet considered earth's atmosphere.  So
       be it.  Christopher Garth, Evanston.
       
       "I should have been a plumber."
                     -- Albert Einstein