Gravityloss 7 hours ago

Exactly. The coin flipping example is a very nice way to put it. It works since the coins are interchangeable, you just count the number of heads or tails.

If the coins were of different color and you took that into account, then it wouldn't work.

It's not intuitive to me what gravity has to do with entropy though, as it's classically just a force and completely reversible (unlike entropy)? Ie if you saw a video of undisturbed objects only affected by gravity, you couldn't tell if the video was reversed.

  • floxy an hour ago

    > Ie if you saw a video of undisturbed objects only affected by gravity, you couldn't tell if the video was reversed.

    How does that work with things like black holes? If you saw an apple spiral out of a black hole, wouldn't you suspect that you were watching a reversed video? Even if you take account the gravitational waves?

    • kgwgk an hour ago

      If you saw a comet coming from the sun, or a meteorite coming from the moon, etc. you would also find that suspicious.