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- Which is a higher entropy state: solar system as it is today with planets going around the sun at fixed distances in an orderly manner
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all the planets and sun bumping into one another forming a single body?
Which is a higher entropy state: solar system as it is today with planets going around the sun at fixed distances in an orderly fashion OR all the planets and sun bumping into one another and forming a single body?
If the entropy of the combined single body is higher, why doesn't the solar system move towards this direction. Should we even talk of entropy here as the concept is normally applied to a gas of free particles/ molecules?
If the entropy of the combined single body is higher, why doesn't the solar system move towards this direction. Should we even talk of entropy here as the concept is normally applied to a gas of free particles/ molecules?