The Coarse Grinding of the Billiard Balls

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There are billiard tables in the world, but it's not a great example of entropy. So you can't quite see the large end limit here when there's only 15 balls on the table. And precisely because the universe began in very low en state, we nevertheless do find stuff in lo enterpy configurations. That helps us understand the world and then understand why you see ice cubes melt and you don't see ice cubes unmelt.

Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.

These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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