the conservation of angular momentum helped a nebula condense into the single plane of our solar system. this is the power of gravity. it overwhelms everything and forces all matter trapped in spacetime to conform to itself.
is this a violation of the third law of thermodynamics? is this a violation of the principal of entropy? not really, but it does contrast with the general principal that the universe, on average, moves to a state of total entropy.
another process that seems to defy entropy is what we call life. can spinning be hypothesized as a means for the origin of life from basic atomic and chemical building blocks?
spinning happens. twisting happens. shifting happens. the coriolis effect. whirpools. eddies. etc.
could these processes be part of a more complex process?
imagine a clothes dryer, spinning. if you put in small pieces of clothing — socks, for instance — and apply heat, the water is extracted over time and the socks come out shaped relatively like socks.
but what happens when you put in longer textiles — pants and sweaters? their long, dangly bits can easily twist together and become bunched up.
and even longer or larger ones, with more surface area — sheets and coverlets? they can very easily become so bunched and twisted that they can prove nearly impossible to untangle. this new shape suddenly provides an area where water and other molecules become trapped for long periods of time — a rudimentary, physical form of safety — shelter. in these sheltered areas, processes that take longer periods of time can happen without damaging interference from the world. true, it’s annoying that your sheets are uselessly bunched up, but at the same time, your blanket is now a sort of haven.
that was of course an analogy. replace your socks with amino acids, replace your pants with short fatty acids, and replace your sheets and coverlets with polypeptide chains, polypeptides and complex proteins — cell walls? what is analogous to the clothes dryer? tide pools, deep sea vents, tides in general?