ELI5-What is entropy?
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Imagine a vase. Now imagine throwing it on the ground, smashing it into thousands of pieces. Now imagine finding every single piece and gluing it back together, *perfectly*. What was easier and took less time and energy to do: smashing the vase into thousands of pieces or the act of gluing it *perfectly* back together?
The vase all together as one is a **low entropy state**, everything is super organized, there is a **low amount of disorder**. The vase in thousands of pieces is a **high entropy state**, the jumbled pile of glass shards is in a **high amount of disorder**.
Things in the universe prefer/tend to approach a higher state of entropy: farts spread out into a room rather than squeeze into a tiny space. This also helps determine the forward flow of time (farts come out of the butt and spread into a room as time goes by).
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