Comment by refactor_master

I think original post is confused exactly because of “tangled chords” analogies. Something being “messy” in our daily lives can be a bit subjective, so using the same analogies for natural forces may seem a tad counterintuitive actually.

Maybe it would be more fitting to say that it just so happens that our human definition of “messy” aligns with entropy, and not that someone decided what messy atoms look like.

I’d say a bucket of water is more neat than a bucket of ice, macroscopically.