Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by dekhn on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:43PM
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you're correct. In stats/thermo class there's a commonly taught "what's the probability of all the molecules of air in a room spontaneously moving to <extremely small location>". The problem is that shoving all those molecules into a tiny location woudl increase the pressure tremendously, sending all the particles in directions that would eventually return to a uniform distribution.
IIUC my professor right the probability is non zero but is practically impossible for a large number of incompressible spheres.
IIUC my professor right the probability is non zero but is practically impossible for a large number of incompressible spheres.