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THD, might you mistakenly be referring to the law of conservation of energy and matter, which states that the amount of energy and matter in a closed system never changes, as the Second Law of Thermodynamics? "But... the universe, being everything, cannot. Things inside can shift about willy...

Reread the sentence: the entropy of a closed system never decreases, but rather increases with time. Well put, defghi. The very typing of this post increases entropy, an event perfectly in line with the current understanding of thermodynamics. -Duxwing

One particular nuance of your language is your use of tiny font, which I and perhaps others at times must strain to see. Would you please use larger font? :) Individual styles--for example, Architect's three line format--are not only the result of genuine thought, but poor education: e.g...

And rightly so: systems sometimes proceed from lower to higher entropy by such spontaneous (I speak in terms of activation energy) phenomena as unstable atoms decaying or water evaporating. -Duxwing

Awkward writing, poor grammar, and misspellings greatly irk me; consequently, I love correcting them--albeit, the frequency of such errors on featured Wikipedia articles dishearten me. Below are several errors that I frequently encounter--stated in general case and have a correction beside...

The maximum, once reached, is stable. -Duxwing

The entropy of a closed system tends toward a maximum. -Duxwing

Git 'er done. :) -Duxwing

Suppressing the unpleasant memories only forestalls the release of their tension. -Duxwing

I used to often have thoughts like this: I accept the thought, feel the emotion, and understand that it is irrational as the feeling subsides. -Duxwing

Black holes are called because they look like black holes; they look like black holes because light gets sucked into them. The singularity in the middle is actually incredibly bright because of all the radiation that the black hole catches. That article doesn't look particularly credible, and...

Where did you read that black holes tear holes in the fabric of space and time? They are clumps of matter that have become infinitely dense because their gravity has overcome any resistance. Are they nevertheless fascinating things to wonder about with implications for how we see the cosmos...

I don't want mom and dad to die. :( I'll likely want to move out one day, but why would I want them dead? An eternal parental figure--in the abstract--need not be evil because people are mentally unhealthy, and the parental figure could serve as a literally ideal mediator and rehabilitator...

My mom is a doctor, so I'll give you the physician's eternal refrain: Eight hours of sleep, eight glasses of water, two thousand Calories, one hour of strenuous exercise with proper stretching before and after, colorful fruits, colorful veggies every day, and not listening to those who offer...

Santy Anno I love sea shanties; they remind me of my beloved surf and salty spray; the toppling blasts of screaming gales and deck-drenching waves; the long, cold, lonely watches beneath the great tapestry of stars that can only be seen where the sky is unpolluted by light; the sense of snug...

Bienvenue, Wsye! :) Je m'appelle Duxwing. Ca va? -Duxwing

I'm not a physics expert, but: Black holes are matter that has collapsed under its own gravity against the resistance of the other three fundamental forces; in a black hole, no force resists gravity, compressing the matter thereof into an infinitely small point. The density of matter therein...

Hahaha! :D You've earned your porch, cane, and lawn: "Back in my day, we had only 65k bytes of RAM, and we liked it!" -Duxwing

Albeit, for short periods, Ne-Fe makes excellent camouflage; sometimes I pretend that I'm an assassin ducking into a crowd of people and trying to blend in to evade the guards. The little social cues that each type puts off are numerous: Blending in with SPs requires a loosening of posture...

Woo! :) I hope that you get promoted. -Duxwing

OK. :) I had almost entirely forgotten about that thread. -Duxwing

Then go get yourself a therapist if you can. The best of luck to you in that endeavor, in coding, and among us. -Duxwing

That's rough. I hope that you find unconditional love one day! :) Anyway, if you're into C++, then talk to Architect in his Ask Architect thread: he has all sorts of advice for young INTP programmers. -Duxwing

Welcome! I'm impressed by your breadth of knowledge. :) Regarding your suspected EDD, would this list describe your problem? -Duxwing

Might making your introversion clear, even as you sit among the crowd, help avoid the confusion? Doing that has brought me good results. Regarding being emotionally handicapped: My empathy usually remains unconscious and in, but it can be roused by sufficiently dramatic or strange behavior on...

Counterfeiting is theft by proxy of inflation in classical economies, but in real economies, no agent other than the counterfeiter will not be able to distinguish small amounts of perfect counterfeiting from the random loss or gain that they experience via bank errors, misplaced bills, and other...