how the fuck you can set a pair of wired earbuds down for 5 minutes and they get tangled up beyond recognition
In: Physics
This is a great example of entropy, entropy is the concept that a closed system (in this case the wire) will tend towards its most chaotic state. Think of it this way, if I tear up a book and throw all the pages in the air, there are millions upon millions of ways for the pages to be unordered, but only one ordered way, that is all the pages, resting on the ground, in order, so a chaotic result is much more likely. The same is true for a wire, it has a few states that are ordered, a clean spiral, layed out flat, etc. But there are millions upon millions of possible knots. Especially if they’re jangling around in your pocket. If you want to prevent tangling, you’ll need to prevent chaos from happening, try wrapping the wire around a flat object, your phone or even a rectangular piece of cardboard will work, and hook the buds under one of the other wires, then when you want to use them, unhook the buds and unravel, no tangles, because you forced a ordered state.
Latest Answers