How can magnets defy entropy?

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So. Heavy iron thing wants to fall to the ground, but magnet keeps it up against gravity… How can this happen seemingly against entropy? Without input of energy?

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>So. Heavy iron thing wants to fall to the ground, but magnet keeps it up against gravity… How can this happen seemingly against entropy? Without input of energy?

There is no work being done. There is no difference between a table preventing the thing from falling and a magnet at the ceiling preventing the thing from falling.