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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As time moves forward, heat tends to go from where it is concentrated to where it is not.
As processes happen, some amount of the energy in the system becomes heat.
Give it long enough and all processes will have happened and all heat will exist. Give it even longer and all heat will have mixed throughout the cosmos such that there are no areas where it is concentrated and areas where it is not
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