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Not sure if you appreciate this, but if you repeat the shaking experiment enough times, you will see it return to perfect order- at some exceptionally tiny prob
by dekhn 4y ago
Not sure if you appreciate this, but if you repeat the shaking experiment enough times, you will see it return to perfect order- at some exceptionally tiny probability. I'm pretty sure you are saying that but instead of "practical amount", it's easier to say it's just exceptionally unlikely.
- Nevermark 4y agoWell lifetimes of shaking is not practical is it. Marbles in a jar are not arranged in a neat spacial grid, but in all kinds of configurations. The chance of recovering any near perfect starting symmetry, depending on the size of a jar, might take decades or millions, or more years. In the meantime, all that energy being used to shake the jar is generating huge amounts of heat entropy.