What Is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

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John Stout: John S. Bell wrote, one is given no idea of how far down toward the atomic scale the splitting of the world into branch worlds penetrates. Or is it more like a neural network or probability tree where each new universe is based on a subset of likely prior permutations? Can you address this issue? The background philosophical point is, as I already said in this podcast, I don't care. Different people are welcome to be persnickety in different ways about when the universes count as different universes," he says.

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