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you would definitely choose the coffee again because the first time you obviously wanted it more than the tea and if time was reset you would still want it more

Alright thanks

Imagine a perfectly thermally isolated room at 70 degrees Fahrenheit. A normal refrigerator that has some reasonable efficiency is brought into the room. It keeps the air inside of it at around 50 degrees or so. Will the room become warmer or colder? I think colder because the refrigerator will...

I don't know if it is the uncertainty principle, but nothing in the universe can achieve actually achieve absolute zero. You can get really close I believe the lowest temperature achieved in a laboratory was 2*10^-10 or something around there.

much much less than one in a billion first of all but i was responding to what you said about it being impossible I am emphasizing your fault in saying impossible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon

Even if it does say something else a whole four paragraphs down I am still right. Temperature is just the movement of particles. There is no law that dictates that the particles have to diffuse to lower concentrations. It just happens practically all the time.

Oh you and I know that the chances of it happening are like 10^-54 but that is far different from 0

sorry if you don't like things quoted from wikipedia, but The second law of thermodynamics is an expression of the universal law of increasing entropy, stating that the entropy of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at...

like 10^-54

It has never been observed not to flow from hot to cold but there is no law that says it cannot

Heat can flow from cold to hot, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon there is no law that says it cannot.

Not impossible. Heat is the energy of particles and basically their speed. They move randomly. There is no law of thermodynamics that says heat flows from hot to cold. It is just assumed that this should happen and for large systems has not been observed not to.

What's the OP?

Nobody knows what happens in the singularity of a black hole.

when i put it in mathematica "FindRoot[1 == Abs[((Sin[x] - x)/Sin[x])]*100, {x, 0.1}]" i get {x -> 0.244097} which makes sense