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The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics

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The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics

Veritasium's explainer on entropy, presented as one of physics' most important and least understood concepts. It uses examples such as heat engines and the sun's energy flowing through the Earth.

HN commenters say it made entropy intuition click and point to it in threads on energy, heat and equilibrium.

5 Hacker News mentions · 2023–2024

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