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3 Sep 2024 21:13:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: What is the Universe made of?  
From: scott
Date: 5 Nov 2010 05:37:58
Message: <4cd3d076$1@news.povray.org>
>> The second law is statistical.
>
>  It still states that the entropy of an isolated system never decreases.

IIRC the derivation/proof of the 2nd law assumes stuff like an infinite 
amount of matter - so the probability of the entropy increasing is (almost) 
zero.


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