John Michael Strubhart

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By comparison, if the temperature is high, your game of musical chairs once again revs up: with a higher average, the range of molecular speeds—some larger than the average and some smaller—is much wider, providing greater latitude for mixing up the speeds while preserving the average. More rearrangements of the molecular speeds that all pretty much look the same means that higher temperature generally entails higher entropy.
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
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