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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

This proof is easily obtained, however, by the method which I am about to explain… (He gives a long footnote explaining why Maxwell might be wrong, talking about how a sequence of collisions might lead to a “cycle of velocity states”—which Maxwell hasn’t proved will be traversed with equal probability in each direction.

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