Mike

Entropy dictates that order cannot flow from chaos without addition of external energy.

Astrophysicists go all wobbly when you ask how gravity can oppose entropy unless it brings energy from outside the system. "What goes up must come down" is a closed equation but clouds of dust collapsing under their own gravity... well, we have yet to discover where that energy comes from.

Even so, if we agree for the purpose of discussion that the Universe favours the stable, I take it then that all progress or lack thereof is a function of interacting stability/instability? If so, it certainly meets the KISS principle... quite neat actually.

Regards

JR