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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Start with its a theory, but probably true. If you throw a rock at a plane of glass… its a lot easier to break the glass than to put it back together. If heat was the equivalent of glass in this case, it is much easier to distribute the heat than to put it back together.
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