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What Is Entropy?

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1. im3w1l ◴[] No.43693848[source]
As a kid I wanted to invent a perpetuum mobile. From that perspective, entropy is that troublesome property that prevents a perpetuum mobile of the second kind. And any fuzziness or ambiguity in its definition is a glimmer of hope that we may yet find a loop hole.