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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

you can't escape the second law of thermodynamics

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

In theory you can because the second law is actually a statistical and probabilistic thing. Currently it looks like that the laws of physics are time direction independent. So if you play a physics simulation forwards and backwards you couldn't tell the difference for a small number of particles so it it actually can (and does on very small time scales) happen that entropy decreases.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

the universe is the ultimate escape room