eli5 What is entropy and what are its biggest implications?
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Entropy is chaos; it’s a disorder of a system. A plate is low-entropy. A shattered plate is high-entropy. You’ve seen plates shatter but you’ll never see shards reassemble themselves into a plate. That’s because entropy/chaos can only increase; that’s one of the laws of thermodynamics.
Ultimately, this means our universe is destined for a heat death.
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