Thermodynamics and Room Cleanliness.
To continue on our mathematical argument shown previously,
we are going to draw up some comparisons between a field of
physics known as thermodynamics and room cleanliness.
Consider for a minute, a closed room. In this closed room
there may be any number of objects ranging from toys, to
clothes, to electronics. Imagine also that there is someone
(say a child) in the room moving the objects around.
First Law of Room Cleanliness: In a closed room,
matter does not disappear. It can only change forms.
ex. Different
kinds of food cannot simply disappear. The food may be
ingested by the child or thrown across the room, however
it cannot simply vanish.
The First Law of Room Cleanliness (Not to be confused with
the first law of thermodynamics which is an entirely
different concept I assure you) in using our ping-pong ball
analogy used previously, is simply saying that if our chess
board is a closed system, ping-pong balls cannot magically
spawn on the chess board. The arrangement of the balls may
change, however the balls may not vanish or magically
appear.
Second Law of Room Cleanliness: The overall
"messiness" of a closed room generally increases.
The second law, in its bear essence, is simply a
restatement of the ping-pong problem. It should be noted
that there are extreme differences between the ping-pong
problem, the closed room problem, and notions of entropy.
The similarity and the differences however, will be
discussed in the next section.