• nebulaone@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Entropy is a concept used to describe, calculate and predict natural phenomena, it doesn’t physically exist.

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        9 hours ago

        The way it shows in physical models suggests it’s a very real phenomena tied to free and bound energy.

        We can say energy has a tendency to be released with growth of entropy in the process.

        Energy along with matter forms everything physical that we observe.

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          9 hours ago

          I think we are misunderstanding each other. I don’t doubt entropy is real. I was just trying to say that it isn’t made out of any physical substance, but rather ideas and thought experiments. You can not hold it in your hands is what I mean by it doesn’t physically exist. It is the absence or end of things.

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            8 hours ago

            Oh, I see!

            But then again, same can be said of anything but matter, and even matter as we experience it is just a set of reflections and electrostatic repulsion.

            You never truly touch a single object - you just reach the force equilibrium - and all things you see around you, as well as yourself, are 99,99999% emptiness, or rather a few tiny electrons being everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Even if we could compress our entire bodies to a grain of sand, it would still be mostly that - an emptiness filled with uncertainty. So, does it even matter?