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Why does practically everything take longer to create than to destroy?
Charlie, Leiden The Netherlands
Because the universe always tends towards a more disorganised state; check out the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
D. Morgan, Amsterdam NL
By definition, the process of creation has to be structured and logical in order that you have a useful end product. Distruction, however, can be random and incoherent. Actions which take little or no thought can be done much faster than those which must be carefully considered.
Rick Webber, London uk
Tattoos don't.
Mark Prosser, Berne Switzerland
Because of entropy. When you create something you need to arrange the parts very carefully in order to make sure that what you are creating is as you want it to be. This takes time. When you destroy something it does not matter where the constituent parts go, as long as they are removed from the previous ordered state. This can be done in a very short time.
Simon, Hinchley Wood UK
This is a complicated one - basically, entropy (or disorder) is always on the increase, so more work is required to create than to destroy - but this work itself causes more entropy in the universe as a whole (try searching on "Maxwell's demon" for a detailed explanation.)
Jeff Vagg, Beckenham Great Britain
Destruction is a more general term than creation. Take, for example, a cake. To create it, you must arrange its consituent parts in a specific fashion. to destory it, you need only to throw it into the cat's litter tray. But if its destruction were as thorough as its creation, that is, if it were to be seperated back out into its constituent parts, the process of cake destruction would take as long, if not much longer, than cake creation. Or, I could have simply said, "because creation is a finer and more exacting art than destruction," but then one should never begin a sentence with 'because', should one?
Rob Redman, Brighton United Kingdom
Entropy!
Glyn Baker, S. Ockendon U.K
When you create something, you are concerned with the end state. This means that there is only one possible arrangement of the materials that will satisfy you, so you have to stick to the correct situation. When you destroy you are unconcerned about the fial state: any one of millions of different shapes of rubble lying around will do, so you need to take far less care. The entropy of the system (the number of possible orderings of the elements)is being reduced to one when you make, but increase when you destroy, and the natural behaviour of entropy in any system is to increase (ask a statistician why).
Jacob Steel, Cambridge England
Entropy. It takes more engery to create order than to create disorder. This is true for any system and it goes for the universe as a whole apparently, and is why an eventual 'winding-down' into cold and darkness is inevitable.
Martin Crawley, Lee-on-the-Solent UK
It doesn't. If I were to ask you to exactly recreate a particular pile of rubble, smashed window or torn shirt, you would find the task extremely difficult, if not impossible. The illusion that destruction is easier than creation reflects the fact that virtually all arrangements of matter are of little or no use to us. Thus, when I randomly rearrange a toaster (by hitting it with a mallet), although I have "created" something that would be very difficult to recreate consciously, the resulting object is of no use to us. Similarly, no permutation of lottery balls is any more or less likely than any other, but the ones we are interested in constitute a very small proportion of the possible outcomes. Creating any particular object is thus more difficult than obtaining any other arrangement of matter for the same reason that manually picking six balls from a pile of forty-nine is harder than just grabbing any old six.
Nick Hare, London
Entropy, the universal rule of order sliding towards chaos. Or gravity. Or the law of averages - more bad things than good: for example, Celine Dion's Greatest Hits; how long to create? 10 seconds to destroy.
David Neill, Stirling Scotland
I'm no physicist, but the way I understand it is based down something like this: Everything in the universe has a level of entropy or order. The higher the level of entropy the more order. Everything 'wants' to have a lower level of entropy or more disorder. This is basically because there are many more possible states of disorder than order. Does this make sense or is it just a jumbled mass of randomly assembled letters?
Rob, London UK
One of the frightening things about nuclear power stations is that they take almost infinitely longer to destroy than create (or use).
Jake Arnott, Bristol UK
How nice that - amid a population of contributors conditioned by physics - a person of metaphysical sensibilities (Nick Hare) contributed an answer. Not all creation is a process of rational thought - take the Surrealists for example, and the Oriental artists & poets. A masterwork can be created in the wink of an eye, no pre-defined outcome is necessary, or even desirable.
Nicola, Montreal Canada
Sorry Nicola, but in fact Nick Hare's contribution was the most mechanistic. Most other answers were conscious of the "human" view (as Nick says) that what we usually think of as "creations" have a purpose. This purpose could be practical or (in the case of works of art) aesthetic. Nick removed humanity and the physical world completely from the picture, reducing it to an issue of mathematics (specifically, probability). In my view, entropy is one of the many concepts originating in physics which enhance (rather than stifle) artistic endeavour. It's a shame that so many people are conditioned to see art and science as mutually exclusive.
Tim Waterfield, Cambridge England
I could create an argument with an ex girlfriend in a blink of an eye which could take 2 or 3 days to destroy.
Chris , Lyon, France
Believe you me, it is very easy to create a beer belly - it takes years of hard work and discipline to destroy it.
Oliver Benson, Luton, UK
Nick Hare's answer strikes me as being brilliant. I disagree with those responses which perceive entropy as being no more than a tendency to disorder. When entropy runs to completion energy/mass will be distributed evenly throughout the universe. How much more order do you want?
Foggy, Warrington UK
Because of our bad nature that pushes us to be destroyers rather than creators.
A. Ali, London UK
Creation is a positive term, loaded with notions of order and directed effort, while destruction implies disorder and a lack of concern. However, constructing a desired arrangement of matter, irrespective of what it looks like or what purpose it serves, generally takes longer than carelessly rearranging it. All other factors being equal, doing anything carefully, whether creating or destroying, generally takes longer than doing it carelessly.
John, London

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