Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Nature cannot undo shuffling, implying irreversibility in physical processes.
- In plain terms
- Once you shuffle, you can't unshuffle; nature works one way.
- What can you take from it?
- Some physical processes like mixing are fundamentally irreversible.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why can't we go backwards?
- Is shuffling a perfect metaphor for entropy?
Another view
At microscopic scales, some processes are reversible despite shuffling.
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