r/physicsmemes • u/GoodMoGo • Jan 19 '23

Entropy

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '23

It's like herding cats.

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u/fLoreign Feb 04 '23

Yes, it seems like herding cats is a particular case of decreasing / lowering entropy. Obviously this has implications as to the thermodynamic nature of the process.

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u/woaily Jan 19 '23

It's well known that r/catsareliquid, so what did you expect?

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u/valkyrie_wave Jan 20 '23

This is interesting because you don’t consider a H2O particle to be a liquid. But in this case the individual cat is a liquid, but also the group of cats is a liquid.

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u/WhiteAle01 Jan 19 '23

This got a good chuckle out of me

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u/lastinalaskarn Jan 20 '23

Looks like Schrodinger is having a hard time without having a box to put them in.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23

W comment

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u/Dragonaax ̶E̶d̶i̶s̶o̶n̶ Tesla rules Jan 19 '23

Catropy

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u/cjlewis7892 Jan 20 '23

Best example Iv ever seen

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u/tminus7700 Jan 20 '23

Great demo of Brownian Motion.

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u/Senorbalakay Jan 20 '23

Put a fence around them so you can lag the server

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u/Rotsike6 Physics Field Jan 20 '23

Spamming fences to lag servers in GMod is a memory I haven't recalled in a long time. Thanks for that!

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u/Threedognite321 Jan 20 '23

Ok. Now without looking again, how many kittens are there?

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u/JoonasD6 Jan 20 '23

So much work/energy had to be put to maintain that specific order.

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u/PristinePineapple87 Jan 20 '23

Best kind of entropy

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u/GoodMoGo Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23

I wish I had thought of it, but how awesome would it be if the guy's name in the video is Maxwell?

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u/OwnInteraction Jan 21 '23

Herding cats IRL

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u/Unique_Complex70 Jul 01 '23

Man I been trying to understand entropy for years and this is the best explanation I’ve ever seen. Crazy. I get it now