Statistical Mechanics, Isn't It?

i feel like i want to back up though, ad, cause i think you've made a very deep point that unless someone has thought about statistical mechanics, might be lost. This idea that that when you have something that's a a collective, it's made up of what we were calling billions and zilions of little entities. So traditionally in physics, we did think of em as atoms or molecules, but then you mention they could be irds. You know, let's just talk about some other cases. Wet people nowadays do statistical physics of money. They think about pollen grain, so they could be orornano particles. We could talk about traffic, the flow of cars on