Show one example of a galaxy that disintegrated
I was researching black holes the other week and stumbled on something mentioning a massive black hole being observed to dismantel the small galaxy it was in but I can't find it anymore. Perhaps I shouldn't have used the word "disintegrate." I apologize.
That's not at all what the law of conservation of energy says. If that were true, the total amount of stars would be zero at at given time.
I know what the law is and I was only using the rate of formation and destruction of stars as a possible macroscopic view of the universe exhibiting the laws of conservation of energy which means that no energy is ever lost, it is only transferred elsewhere. However I acknowledge that as a bad example considering I am finding sources that say that more stars are forming than dying... "These rates also imply that per year about four solar masses of interstellar gas are converted to stars, the team said. About ten billion years into its life, the Milky Way galaxy has now converted about 90 percent of its initial gas content into stars. Star death is intricately tied to star creation because it provides the raw material --- elements strewn into interstellar space --- as well as the energy in the form of shock waves that prompts cool gas clouds to condense and form stars."-NASA
Based on the above and following quote I could see how the universe could be seen subjectively more complex in the sense that it has convertedit's initial simple elements like hydrogen and helium into heavier elements that form eventually into planets like earth leading to other biological events, yielding planets that didn't previously exist, and life on earth.
"Practically all of these heavy elements were formed in generations of stars: stars that lived, burned their fuel into heavier elements, died and shed their heavy, enriched elements back into the cosmos, and were incorporated into the next generations of stars and — when the heavier elements became abundant enough — rocky planets." http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/07/05/why-did-the-universe-start-off-with-hydrogen-helium-and-not-much-else/
However from a microscopic view of the entire universe, the materials needed to create everything have existed from the beginning and have since been converted into different arrangements over time without loss or gain(theoretically). Everything that makes up the human body can be found in a star. We might be more complex subjectively than a star in the sense that we have consciousness for example, but one could take the view that we are just a rearrangement of materials. This is what I was getting at, subjective views of complexity. I agree that an iphone is more complex than a payphone. When looking only through a microscope though, the perspective changes. I feel I was concerned more about the microview of things and you were taking the macroview.
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
