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I don’t think entropy ever moves from high to low overall, it only ever distills some local low out of an higher entropy area, and in doing so, the overall entropy increases.

It works a bit like air conditioning: yeah, you can make one room cold, but only by making more heat outside the room. The overall temperature of the system increases.



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