Science

One equation on a tombstone explains why time only runs one way

Ludwig Boltzmann showed entropy is just a count: the number of microscopic arrangements that produce the same large-scale state. Disordered states have vastly more possible arrangements than ordered ones, which is why systems drift toward disorder rather than away from it. His formula, S = k log W, is carved on his gravestone in Vienna.

Ludwig Boltzmann, Boltzmann's entropy formula — Formalized 1877; engraved on his tombstone, Zentralfriedhof, Vienna

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