Intro bugs me. Second law is "violated" all the time at small enough scales. Aka, fluctuation theorems. Of course the violation just means you're not really in

Intro bugs me. Second law is "violated" all the time at small enough scales. Aka, fluctuation theorems. Of course the violation just means you're not really in the thermodynamic regime. Thermodynamics is kind of circularly defined, and that's fine. Thermodynamics is valid when it works. Temperature is emergent, it's only well defined, quantum or classically, for sufficient large system or sufficient strong coupling to bath. Rest of the articles seems fine, but I just hate these kind of set ups trying to make things more mysterious than they are.