I'm regurgitating what I understood from reading the article. Here are some relevant quotes: > The abstract findings suggested that the components of a hotter

I'm regurgitating what I understood from reading the article. Here are some relevant quotes: > The abstract findings suggested that the components of a hotter system, by virtue of having more energy, are able to explore more possible configurations and therefore discover states that act as a sort of bypass, allowing the hot system to overtake a cool one as both dropped toward a colder final state. > “We all have this naive picture that says temperature should change monotonically,” said Raz. “You start at a high temperature, then a medium temperature, and go to a low temperature.” But for something driven out of equilibrium, “it’s not really true to say that the system has a temperature,” and “since that’s the case you can have strange shortcuts.”