why is it easier to heat things up, than it is to cool them down?

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why is it easier to heat things up, than it is to cool them down?

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The universe tends towards maximum entropy and entropy cannot decrease. Heating is converting low entropy to high entropy so it’s easy. Cooling is reducing entropy and you have to put the entropy somewhere else.

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