Jul 29, 2008 00:20
How many ways does an egg have to be pristine, unspoiled?
How many ways does an egg have to be broken, shattered to pieces?
One. Many.
That's time. We experience time as a continuous flow of events. But time is not a continuous flow of events. It's just the difference between a whole, pristine egg and a shattered egg that lies in the floor, it's liquid content leaking out and spreading on the floor.
Entropy, that's the name,