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Entropy My favorite card game, FIFTY-TWO PICKUP, is a classic illustration of the concept of entropy. What makes the game so much fun is that the cards never land all face up arranged by number according to suite, even if they started out that way. They are always "disorderly". Scrambled eggs also remind me of entropy (ever see eggs spontaneously unscramble?), as do sand castles being washed away by the ocean. More Entropic Musings: Entropy is time's arrow...we would not have a sense of time were it not true that everything goes preferentially in one direction (greater disorder). Heat Death of Universe: When everything achieves the same temperature there will be total thermodynamic disorder and the universe will stop running. Entropy in the movies: The goocher scene in STAND BY ME.

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