A system, as defined in thermodynamics, cannot be infinite. The defining feature of a system is that it has a boundary which separates it from it’s surroundings, so that it can be studied as a whole. The proposal of an infinite system is completely contradictory.
Maybe not. We don’t have a particularity strong theory, to my knowledge.
Which characteristics of life do you have in mind?
Really?
I couldn’t help but notice when I jumped back and forth between this thread and the “We Create Reality Together” that you posted this:
The fact that each living organism acts like a whole entity that also responds to the environment in order to preserve itself is hard to explain with only what we know from physics. It can be argued that the ‘physical laws’ we know allow life but allowing life isn’t the same thing as explaining it.
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I gotcha. I thought you had specific characteristics in mind.
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I would have said that the phenomenon is you seeing/describing it falling to the ground.
So you’re saying that it is meaningless to describe the universe as thermodynamically closed.
It is common to consider the universe as a single system.
Yes, I believe system theory is quite limited in its applicability. However, some people seem to think its applicability is unlimited, and so they think it can be applied where its application would really be misleading, or useless at best. This I believe is the case when people think that the universe can be represented as a system.