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Comment by meindnoch

I don't get it.

To me, entropy is not a physical thing, but a measure of our imperfect knowledge about a system. We can only measure the bulk properties of matter, so we've made up a number to quantify how imperfect the bulk properties describe the true microscopic state of the system. But if we had the ability to zoom into the microscopic level, entropy would make no sense.

So I don't see how gravity or any other fundamental physical interaction could follow from entropy. It's a made-up thing by humans.

parent meindnoch 1 year ago

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