If you are omnipotent how do you prepare tea?

In the world of science everything has a logic behind, and laws that govern its process. Whether it’s a death of a star, or your pen falling down from the desk. But how you can fit omnipotent in the logical world. Imagine if you are omnipotent.

If someone becomes omnipotent, the laws of the universe are also applicable to him or her, right? But now he/she can use his/her power to do things.

Let’s understand how to apply your power if you are omnipotent to make a cup of tea. What is the use of being omnipotent if you can’t prepare the tea in just a snap?

Yes, tea, the most important thing to Indians that make their entire day by just sipping a cup in the morning. If we are talking about the laws then the same principle that’s behind the baking of the cake is actually applied to understand the processes in the universe.

The same principle that is used to softening the vegetables in the beaker, and to hardening the egg is used to understand the formation and death of a star.

Yes, we are indeed talking about thermodynamics. The chemistry of making tea and the spontaneity of the universe are related, how? That’s what we are going to discuss.

There is a book named “Chemistry in your kitchen” by Matthew Hartings, that claims that you become a chemist any time you step into a kitchen.

Do read if you are a Chemist Enthusiast or hobbyist.

Also read the article titled, “We all know zero percent.”

What are we discussing?

My claim is that, if the universe allows, then tea can make by itself, just put all the ingredients in the pot.

Milk + water + sugar + tea leaves + (any additional taste enhancer) = tea (without litting the stove).

Now in the thermodynamic aspect, the universe is divided into two things; system and surrounding. So what you are emphasizing is the system and what’s left in the universe is the surrounding.

So for us, the pot containing the ingredients of tea is the system, and the rest is surrounding.

To understand this, first, we have to understand the three terms enthalpy, entropy, and spontaneity.

Enthalpy

In layman’s terms, if a system absorbing energy, its enthalpy increases, and decreases when releasing energy.

More specifically.

Enthalpy is dependent on two things the temperature (internal or thermal energy) of the system, and the work it is doing.

Enthalpy changes depend either on the change in thermal energy, or the system doing some work, or both.

Entropy

Entropy is more simple, it is the measure of randomness. That’s simple!

Like gas particles have more randomness, liquid has less, and the solid has least. So if change of state happened entropy increases or decrease.

Now if something is boiling up then randomness is more in the particles, so entropy increasing and vice versa.

Spontaneity

Spontaneity is actually the way to tell that if the process happens on its own or we have to involve ourselves to make it happen.

If it’s happening on its own, it’s spontaneous, if not then we have to do some kind of work, and it is non-spontaneous.

Conventional Tea V/s Tea made by you if you are omnipotent.

If we put the ingredients in a pot, and we have to give some heat which increases the entropy, and hence the reaction starts happening. Conventionally making tea is a non-spontaneous process.

But if you are omnipotent you can make the tea spontaneous. If you watched the movie, Tenet, I’ve watched it recently the whole plot is based on the effect of entropy. So if you are omnipotent you can control entropy, and that’s what the power comes from.

“Hey, what’s your superpower?”

“I can control entropy.”

“Show me.”

“WOAHHH!!!”

But if this reaction is spontaneous enough or you make this reaction (preparation of tea) spontaneous with your powers, then what would happen?

The answer is the tea would prepare on its own.

But how does it look like?

The spontaneity of any process depends on two things enthalpy and entropy. So basically spontaneity that the process happens on its own or not depends on these two things; enthalpy and entropy.

See spontaneity dependent on entropy, you controlling the entropy means controlling the spontaneity of any process.

Think like this, when we put all the ingredients in the pot, suddenly the mixture starts heating up on its own. And the tea is ready in few minutes.

A hypothetical situation.

Here’s the complete hypothetical situation. Give me your answer.

Now we are preparing tea for our whole neighborhood (but why??) using a big container like in-meter cubes of volume. And put milk, tea leaves, sugar, and water in huge proportion. And the tea is a spontaneous one, you know that make on its own. And there is a small closed room in which you are preparing the tea, and after putting all the ingredients in this big container, you put a cover on the top. Now, what will happen?

Your options are:

1. The room will blow up and you die with your whole neighborhood.
2. The container becomes so hot that it raises the temperature of the room in an unbearable amount and you die.
3. The container becomes hot, but why are you feeling chills and cold? Eventually, you will die.
4. Like I care and know I will die.

What would be the answer?

The answer is the third option, that you feel cold. Eventually, some you will die that’s also true.

The Conclusion

So basically controlling the entropy means, the process is still endothermic which means it requires heat to make the tea. Because you can control the entropy, so now what happens is. The pot needs energy or heat, so the pot snatches it from the surrounding. So the system takes heat from the surrounding.

Because the surroundings gave heat to the pot. So the surrounding becomes cooler, and you are standing in the room ( which is part of the surrounding) so feel chills.

You feel cold in the closed room.

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