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The Second Law of Thermodynamics
The second law of thermodynamics is the one that says the entropy of a closed system is always increasing. But when we look at the universe it seems to be very ordered. There are particles on the the milli and micro scales. It feels very structured in a fun hierarchical way. This Austrian physicist was really confused by this. He came up with two possible explanations. The first which we now know is probably true is that the universe just happened to start in a pretty ordered or low entropy state. And so the fact that we see a lot of order now is just a consequence of how the universe started. Other scientists at the time so Boltzmann's contemporaries they thought that he was being
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