> I don't believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
> I don't believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
But even this is not the full story, because I can take a mass-spring network, and no matter how I choose to coarse-grain it, I will not see the entropy corresponding to that coarse-graining increase, because the trajectory of a mass-spring system is periodic. Entropy increase requires that the system is ergodic with respect to the chosen coarse-graining operation, i.e. that over long times the trajectory visits the coarse-grained states in a "random" and uniform way. It's not at all obvious to me why the dynamics of particles bouncing around in a box have this property, and particles attached in a mass-spring network do not; and neither the Sabine nor the Veritaserum videos address this or why we should expect all practical real-world physical systems to be ergotic with respect to practical coarse-graining mechanisms.
I don't pretend to understand this stuff, but wouldn't a real mass-spring system slowly stop, due to friction, air resistance, heat dissipation, ...? So a real system wouldn't be periodic.
I posted it without realizing somebody else had already posted it.
Gotta love Prof. Hossenfelder.