The messy-bedroom explanation of entropy is wrong
Physicist Rhett Allain uses three dice to show why heat flows from hot to cold, a matter of probability across 216 possible outcomes.
Physicist Rhett Allain wants to retire the messy-bedroom explanation of entropy. Disorder, he writes in Wired, "doesn't mean messiness or chaos" — it counts the ways a system's parts can be rearranged without changing its overall state.
He uses dice instead. Three six-sided dice will give you…
