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Or consider the everyday example of an egg falling from a table and smashing on the ground. The highly ordered egg becomes a scattered mass of eggshell. There are many more ways for the broken shell to be arranged than when it was in one piece around the egg. Watch a video of this scenario run forwards and backwards and it is clear which direction represents the true flow of time. Increased entropy keeps track of time’s arrow.
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