HN Theater @HNTheaterMonth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI-qAxKJoSU

In the video above you will witness a metal wire in a disorderly shape spontaneously form into an organized spring shape when entropy is increased (the wire is heated). There are no special effects or video rewinding trickery here, the phenomenon is very real.

It is as if you were looking at water spontaneously form into ice cubes but entropy is NOT reversing! It is moving forward.

The video is a really good example of entropy. It's good in the sense that if you understand why entropy is increasing when the metal is heated than you truly understand what entropy is... as the video gets rid of the notion of order and disorder all together.

That's right. There are many cases of increasing entropy where the system spontaneously progresses from a greater disorder to more organization.

Many people say that the when some system becomes more organized that means entropy is leaving the local system and increasing overall in the global system. This is not what's happening here. The wire is being heated. Atoms are becoming more organized and less disorderly by virtue of MORE entropy entering the system. If you understand this concept then you truly understand entropy. If not you still don't get it.