I appreciate the explanation, but the very first example doesn't sit well with me. Water forming into ice cubes spontaneously looks weird simply because we’re not used to seeing it. Consider a time-lapse of an icicle forming as a sort of counter-example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mmHQft7-iSU
(Not refuting entropy as the order of time at all, just noting a visual example is not great evidence.)
Ah, but the icicle isn’t really equivalent to water undripping and refreezing back into a nice cube-shaped object, at presumed room temperature (since our point of reference is the first gif). That would be weird to see IRL always, no matter what. You could watch that gif a million times and you’d still shit your pants if that happened to the glass of water on your desk.
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I appreciate the explanation, but the very first example doesn't sit well with me. Water forming into ice cubes spontaneously looks weird simply because we’re not used to seeing it. Consider a time-lapse of an icicle forming as a sort of counter-example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mmHQft7-iSU
(Not refuting entropy as the order of time at all, just noting a visual example is not great evidence.)
Ah, but the icicle isn’t really equivalent to water undripping and refreezing back into a nice cube-shaped object, at presumed room temperature (since our point of reference is the first gif). That would be weird to see IRL always, no matter what. You could watch that gif a million times and you’d still shit your pants if that happened to the glass of water on your desk.