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> which is disordered and not ordered.

Which would like a bunch of randomized almost undetectable energy near absolute zero. So, I'm out on a limb past my comfort zone here, but my working model is:

Higher temperatures mean higher velocities mean the particles are less likely to interact with other particles and so their amount of entropy decreases, they become more predictable, have fewer possible future states, than they had before.

The second law just implies that work energy will always escape the system as heat because heat always moves from space with higher temperatures to space with lower temperatures. In a sense the universe is trying to move the hot things away from each other because it wants to be cold.



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