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  • Oh no, not at all! :C I'm sorry I am literally the WORST person at responding to VMs. But definitely not freaked out I promise!!
    Oh it was just a physics joke. A thermodynamic system (which would really include any still gases and substances you can think of) has properties such as temperature and internal energy. Thermal systems also have an entropy, which is basically a measure of the "freedom" of a system, or the number of ways it could exist to have a certain internal energy. Since you can't practically keep track of the motion of every individual atom in a gas or liquid, you have to rely on averages and overall quantities that can be measured. The structure of ice at low energies and that of water vapor at large energies allow us to calculate larger entropies for water vapor than for ice. This is why the word "entropy" will often correspond as a synonym for "disorder", because low entropy systems are often organized and have some symmetry structures, like ices and minerals.

    Now, there are various theories in cosmology concerning the death of the universe. One of these is the "heat death" scenario, in which the gravitational forces of matter and the expansive forces of spacetime are so well balanced, that the universe will live long enough for all matter to basically form stars, older stars, and black holes for so many generations that eventually there won't be enough elements left that are light enough to burn in stars. So eventually everything just goes black.

    As if that weren't bad enough, according to the second law of thermodynamics in physics, any closed thermal system will always evolve so that, on overwhelming average, its entropy increases, or tends to fail to decrease, but never at all decreases. In the heat death scenario, matter and gravitational energy become more evenly and evenly spread, so that the universe is basically a closed system. Finally, after eons and eons, the universe will not only be black but have essentially the exact same mass-energy distribution everywhere. Perfect translational and rotational symmetry. Not a hair of anything different. This is a state of maximal entropy.

    So when you asked me how everything was going, that was exactly the question I answered.





    No, I am not fun at parties.
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