LizR wrote:
I don't understand how this works, so I can't comment on the details. I
seem to remember asking for a simple version that a dummy like me can
understand - and don't recall seeing it, although maybe I missed it.
But in any case the 2nd law isn't a law of physics, it's just what tends
to happen given certain circumstances. Say you lose one earring, what
are the chances someone will find it, recognised it as yours and mail it
to you? Generally rather low, but it could happen, it just relies on an
unlikely chain of random factors operating in your favour, to quote Mr
Spock.
The 2nd law is like that - unlikely things generally failing to happen -
on the molecular scale, a zillion times per second. You can't circumvent
it unless you can circumvent the maths of probability.
Which means that it counts as a law of physics. You seem to want to
impose some higher standard of law-likeness on Thermodynamics.
Probabilistic laws are perfectly law-like -- just think quantum mechanics.
Bruce
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