I was trying to explain this to my sister – or at least, the concept that everything is finite (we have *very* strange conversations), but I cannot explain it to save my life. What’s a good way of explaining entropy and the basics of thermodynamics to a layperson?
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Energy can never be passed from an object or place with less energy to one with more energy, even as water never flows uphill.
Eventually the places with more energy will have given sufficient energy to the places with less energy that all places have the same quantity. At this point no further transfers of energy can occur.
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