I went to see a block of arctic ice melting on the steps of St Pauls Cathedral on the weekend. It looked like this.
And I got chatting to the people who put it there who tried to explain some science to me. It went a bit like this, when things of different temperature are put into the same environment with each other they'll have a fight with each other in trying to achieve an exact balance between each temperature. So for example if you put the left overs of your roast chicken in the fridge before it has time to cool this will raise the internal temperature of the fridge until it balances that of the chicken, and then the fridge will then fight the chicken back down to it's normal temperature again. This is why we feel so cold when we go outside in the winter, our bodies are fighting to make the outside temperature the same as ours and the outside is fighting to make our temperature the same as it's own. That's a battle we're never going to win so we get cold. There's a name for this but I've forgotten it.
Anyway it made me think about other kinds of friction between elements that are fighting each other, and how they'll only settle once a balance/comprimise is achieved. It could be true of politics (government policies meeting peoples ideals), business (services matching expectations), economics, nature, relationships, the lot. And that the fight is pretty much a consistent as change is a consistent. So we want balance, but will never get it.
Or if we do it might be based on the complete removal of something else.
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