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Could we picture the universe without entropy (in it)?
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[QUOTE="entropy1, post: 6042309, member: 169968"] It is sometimes said that entropy is "unlikely" to return to the "pattern" that it came from, for instance: if we have a vat with blue gasmolecules and white gasmolecules separated by a slit, if we remove the slit, the blue and white molecules will mingle, [I]unlikely to return to their separated state spontaneously. [/I] So, it would have to be equally unlikely for the molecules to form a picture of a horse's silhouette or a locomotive's silhouette, for example. But that leaves me wondering if a set of cards "Ace of hearts", "Ace of spades", "Ace of clubs", "Ace of diamonds" is [I][B]more[/B][/I] 'special' than a set of cards "King of spades", "Seven of hearts", "Jack of spades", "Nine of clubs", for example. It seems to me a little antropomorphic: if we humans see a pattern, there is a pattern, and otherwise not! For instance: if we lay on our backs looking at the clouds, who are subject to entropy, we see patterns in them anyway! It seems to me that the blue and white gasmolecules [I]could indeed[/I] return back to their separated state. But the chances they [I]do[/I] are [I]equally likely[/I] as [I]any[/I] other pattern! It is just that we don't like those patterns as much! If we weigh all patterns equally, would there still be entropy? So I wonder if we could indeed picture the universe [I]without[/I] entropy. [/QUOTE]
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