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Making Order from Chaos

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Written by Paul Strauss | June 25, 2024

If you dump a bunch of dice into a jar, they’ll just land in random positions. But if you jiggle the jar while spinning it, they will eventually work their way into orderly layers, filling in all the gaps. The Action Lab’s physics lesson explains the entropic forces at work that encourage objects to organize themselves.


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