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> This implies that for macroscopic systems, the expected time one would be required to wait to observe such a decrease in entropy occurring is unobservably lar
by timewizard 2y ago
> This implies that for macroscopic systems, the expected time one would be required to wait to observe such a decrease in entropy occurring is unobservably large.
Yea but we have virtual particles and the Casimir effect. Am I wrong or isn't this these perturbations evidencing themselves on a macroscopic scale?
- whatshisface 2y agoPerturbations can mean either analogical reasoning (something is similar to something that it could come from with a small change) or actual perturbation (the effect of Venus on the orbit of the moon). Virtual particles are perturbations in the former sense, while quantum fluctuations are a small perturbation in the latter.