What is entropy? Also, can anyone explain how it relates to matter, gravity, time, other physics terms?
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Think of it as having a nice clean bedroom. You’ve picked up all the clothes and put them away or washed them and folded them. Your floor is vacuumed, pictures dusted, so on and so forth. As we all know, it never stays like that. Eventually your clothes end up on the floor again, you drawers need to be resorted, things need to be dusted and cleaned. This is essentially you fighting against entropy. It takes energy to clean your room, if you don’t spend that energy to clean your room, it eventually will look like a mess (ie chaos or disorder).
Things want to return to a state of least energy (if we personify them this way). Which makes sense. If you take your shirt off and just throw it in your room it won’t neatly fold itself and go into your drawer. It will just fall to the ground in whatever crumped mess you have tossed it in.
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