Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

I’d give it some thought. There are lots of analogous examples in physics. Think of a siphon. Almost teleologically, liquid flows uphill because the energy cost of that is more than balanced by liquid also going down. 1/

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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

The details of the process are less clear in this conjecture, but it’s perfectly orthodox to point out that local increase in order compensated by overall increase in entropy doesn’t violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics. 2/

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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

It’s not too much further a step to imagine that the 2nd law of thermodynamics will find its way, just like the law of gravity means mountains will erode, and processes that accelerate that should at least be unsurprising. /fin

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