Entropy and physics for idiots

There's a big online industry on explaining scientific concepts. Most of them fail. The award for the most misunderstood and poorly explained concept is ... *drum roll* ENTROPY!!!.

But thanks to a bunch of rowdy guys and girls we have physics for idiots dot com. Let me link you to their thermodynamics and entropy article and be amazed:

IDIOTS FOR THERMODYNAMICS 

A very weak analogy would the configurations of Rubik's cube when you're solving it. From one configuration to the final desired configuration you have a certain amount of configurations you have to go through. With each and every new state you know more about the past and future configurations.

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