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Originally Posted by duga
Think about it...you start a chemical reaction, it proceeds to equilibrium, using up catalysts and creating products until no more reaction occurs. There is still the potential for more reactions to occur, but without adding anymore elements, it will remain at equilibrium. This is the limited universe I was talking about. With a finite number of elements, any closed system will eventually reach equilibrium. Throw those same elements in again and again and what happens? The same thing...the environment recreates itself over and over. It's predictable.
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What if you consider big bang all the way though to the universe's equilibrium/end as the one reaction?
Ie. catalyst + reactants -> products
The amount of reactants vs products is constantly changing, the reaction is irreversible and the equilibrium is at the end of the reaction. Isn't that what IS happening (assuming no big crunch), the universe is constantly changing, not self sustaining, while proceeding to AN (just the one) equilibrium of sorts (the end of the universe/reaction).