Re:Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving do...
by andrepd on Sunday July 09, 2017 @05:27PM
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Yes, the second law of thermodynamics is a statistical law. It is physically possible that all the particles in an ideal gas container will be moving east all at the same time, for example (it doesn't break any law of mechanics), or that a temperature fluctuation will spontaneously appear in a material in thermal equilibrium. It's just that the probability for such spontaneous entropy decreases happening is astronomically small.
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