Is the second law of thermodynamics routinely violated?

[Max_S]

@Half_Man_Half_Wit

That’s the situation we’re in here: whenever we try, we will find greyness increasing with overwhelming probability. That is, in any concrete, reasonably large series of trials, we won’t observe a violation. Thus, we formulate a law to the effect that greyness always increases. This law stands on equal footing with every other physical law: it’s a generalization from finitely many observations.

I think we understood each other, right up until you said “in any concrete, reasonable large series of trials, we won’t observe a violation.” That’s not true. You would have to say we probably won’t observe a violation, and you can drop the rest of that sentence. But this is a minor issue of semantics. The person formulating the law does not think so, and that is why his law is flawed.

~Max