The reason that physicists get excited about entropy is that it is an extremely useful tool.
"things will tend to become more disordered over time, because there are just more ways to be disordered than ordered."
You can derive all of classical thermodynamics from this one observation.
At a high level, physics is just symmetries and laws, and efforts to poke holes in them. We are "hung up" because they form the base of the core lines of inquiry in the field, not because we don't understand them.
"things will tend to become more disordered over time, because there are just more ways to be disordered than ordered."
You can derive all of classical thermodynamics from this one observation.
At a high level, physics is just symmetries and laws, and efforts to poke holes in them. We are "hung up" because they form the base of the core lines of inquiry in the field, not because we don't understand them.