216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
In the 1870s, Boltzmann said there were only two ways a system could go from low to high entropy. But modern physics textbooks say that number is more than twice as large. They're conditionalizing on starting in low entropy, which is a big cheat, he says. "It's much easier to con people than it is to convince them they've been conned," Baldini writes.
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