Is the second law of thermodynamics routinely violated?

[Max_S]

@Half_Man_Half_Wit

It’s formulated on exactly the same basis as every other law: by generalization from observational regularities. You do the coin example experiment a couple of hundred times, and you’ll always find the law to hold; absent knowledge of the microscopic dynamics, you have no justification to assume that in some cases, it’ll be violated. So it’s on exactly the same grounds as any other law of physics.

No, if you do the coin example experiment a couple hundred of times, you might find the law to hold. It is not even given that the law will probably hold.

I agreed that the law could be formulated but I did not agree that the steps between 5 and 18 of that example were valid, logical steps. I never agreed with your logic past step 5, because you missed a very important premise. See my post on dice logic, [POST=21631856]#150[/POST].

~Max