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clemParis | 5 years ago

You can tidy your room and the mess (that they mistake for entropy) would be reduced. The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that in an isolated system the entropy is always increasing (or at best constant), so the room analogy does not work.

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testing312|5 years ago

Tidying your room would be adding energy to the system, to make it tidy. This is still in line woth thermodynamics where adding energy can decrease entropy

AtHeartEngineer|5 years ago

You have to add energy to make it messy as well

amelius|5 years ago

Tidying it requires external energy, which is what is happening (unless the person stays in the room in which case the mess will become even bigger).