The best and most underrated science channel, hands down. This channel doesn't need huge explanation, tons of formulas and images. A simple sentences and simple images, so a 10 year old can understand it, which means he has mastered it to incredible degree. If there were more physics teachers like this guy, I am sure that there will be more people interested in physics. Nothing I can say more, keep up the good work and stay safe mate, you are a diamond.

Statistical mechanics are fascinating because they require almost no assumptions about the real world, but are able to describe many phenomenons

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I watch other science channels and yours is the one that makes me understand the others and learn, you make it really easy, huge thanks

Your ability to break down complicated subjects so they are easy to understand is remarkable! Your teaching abilities are on par with Richard Feynman himself! Thank you so much and keep up the great work!

i dont know how many people would read this, im 2007 kid from india, gonna enter class 12th in few months. a year or 1.5yrs ago i was lucky enough one day this channels that black hole video came into my lockscreen wallpapers and i started to watch it and i fell in love with this channel........ was at class 9th end or starting 10th when i got to know about this channel. now im gonna finish 11 , i watched every video of this channel.............. i couldnt understand topics then but now i could understand way more after i read thermodynamics............. have watched ever video atleast twice.thank you sir i really have lots of respect for you...........

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I saw the lecture by Sean Carroll on wondrium and that was mind-blowing, but this work of imagination is next level.

Already know this is gonna be a good one.

This is incredibly good explanation. Entropy was so strange concept to grasp.This style of education will speed up human evolution. We are so lucky to have this easy access to knowledge.

Channels like this are rare. He understands the material so well and can make great animation to convey it

Thank you for another amazing video. Every single video I watch is another "ohhhhhh now I get it" moment, even when I go in thinking I have a grasp of the concept!

Your channel has sparked a newfound curiousity for science, I love it ! Now rather than Internet drama, I often get recommendations about the unusual science concepts I never heard before and I'm glad that for once im not consuming junk content

Honestly this channel is sick. Prolly one the best science channels on KZfaq. I seriously wouldn't have picked A level physics if it wasn't for this.

I'm less than a minute in and already I can tell this is the best video explaining entropy on KZfaq...

You explain concepts that I've heard about in ways that I can finally understand! Thank you!

The most amazing channel by far, as an undergrad in Physics, I can clearly see that.

The best explanation of the concept of Entropy on this platform. Thank you Science click English for making me thinking.

This is one of my favorite channels you explain things in a very clear manner

I can just so clearly see you kicking back to enjoy a good Mindscape episode each week

Just, wow... Thank you for this. I struggle with these concepts, but that was really well explained.

I always thought about this but never knew how to explain it. This video described it perfectly

How on earth this guy continuously keeps amazing us with his amazingly beautiful and easy to comprehend animations

I found your channel on a whim, and I haven't been able to stop watching your videos. Truly an incredible experience that even I can understand. Having no real science background, your channel has awakened something within me. Your videos have completely immersed me in the quantum realm, thanks!

I have studied entropy many times in uni and this one is the best I've seen. Thank you so much!

This might be the best (or at least most intuitive) explanation of entropy. Literally all other KZfaq channels just say that entropy is a measure of disorder without explaining how to measure disorder. I mean, there is no disorder-o-meter. But here the "measure of disorder" was explained as the probability of a family of similar arrangements. Great video :)

I love this channel so much. Concepts are explained in such a way that I can actually get a grasp on what's being said. I love it!

This a beautifully done video on entropy. I've always been fascinated by this subject.

This is the best explanation of entropy I've seen yet, thank you

You simply don't cease to amaze, the conciseness of your videos is on a whole different league, and your ability to build up ideas in an intuitive way, with minimal and yet full context is pure teaching talent.

This is without the best channel on youtube for anything to do with space and my favourite channel of all time, I get so happy when I see a new video.

Man... this is by far the best explanation of entropy. Thanks

Agreed with most comment. By far this is the best physics channel. I was finally understood Einstein's GR and SR also from this channel. Keep it up!!!

I'm only at 7:43, but I want to pause to say I really appreciate your relation of entropy to physical experience, when you say that "physical systems tend to homogenize", instead of falling back on a circular argument like "time just passes". So many shows tend to link "entropy" and "time" in a philosophical or cultural way, but your script reminds us of the importance that "the physical intuition" or sensation or experience of a balloon, or boiling water or melting ice is at the core of discussions about entropy. You make this perspective so clear! ... And of course you have a great sidenote later to clarify that gravitational entropy and other things are still worth thinking about outside of this intuition

So glad I discovered this channel. These videos are brilliant

Thank you so much. I'm working on an article for my university, and you helped me a lot!

This channel never fails to blow my mind.

Part of the magic of this channel has got to be the perfectly timed music ... it sucks me right in the mystery and gives me that near Hitchcok-like suspense of wondering what comes next ... makes me feel like I'm at the edge of my seat in amazement and wonderment!

A minor critique regarding the balloon example (6:39): Picking a balloon instead of a rigid container (eg an open bottle) makes the whole situation needlessly complicated and ambiguous. The balloon itself will go from a stretched/inflated to a relaxed/deflated state (and thereby pushing out whatever is inside), no matter how the air molecules are initially distributed within the whole system.

YOu are smashing the old theories in a new visualization, thanks for the effort which help the next generation to perceive big theories in a simple way ... A big bow !

Dude I have a PhD and you are better than all of my professors combined. I literally couldn't progress into theoretical physics and took experimental because I was missing these visualisations. All those cryptic tensor formulas make sense now, thank you.

The best voice on the internet by far

This is the best channel on KZfaq.

Finally! We had to wait for some while… Thanks again!

This channel is actually mind blowing

You, Sir, just earned yourself a new subscription.

One of the best, maybe the best science channel, at least for GR. Entropy is a tricky topic and rightfully there is a disclaimer at 8:41: degree of (increasing) structure is many times confused with a degree of lower Entropy and vice versa: higher Entropy less Structure (also not true in general). E.g. two layers of oil and water phase separation (looking more structured) has higher Entropy relativ to an oil-water mix after shaking. I wish that this is the first of an introductory videos to that fundamental subject.

This channel is pure gold

Well explained! Keep it up! I'm learning more and more.

Amazing video. Clear and easy to follow, at last explained properly 😎

Watching this legend's videos under a thousand views This is what gives life meaning

This was brilliant! The only thing I didn't get was how the expansion of the universe could prevent heat death

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Always hyped for your vids!

These guys always produce high quality videos

This channel is really amazing.. Me on being an indian ,searched i was not getting any relevant video of indians...then i found this which explained the concept welll and in interpetable accent...

It’s cool how you mention something that can give us goosebumps at the end, then just end the video

Every member of the human race needs to see this and work to understand it.

entropy and the egg, essentially our newton's apple. dude blew my mind in 30 seconds, the egg CAN be put back together because we have more data for what it WAS! all it takes is a simple time swipe backwards with the correct parameters.. the universe is so fundamental when it clicks.

I really love listening to these stuff before bed , thank you dear author

One of my favorite topics. Thanks.

Honestly the best physics channel for understanding any Complex subjects. Would be really cool to see you doing a video on tensors

Dear Octave, Alessandro + your esteemed audience, First of all, many sincere thanks for your collective efforts! "What is entropy? In what fields is it useful? And how does it explain the direction in which transformations occur? All these answers in 12 minutes!" ...sounds terrific, but this is definitely not for an average mind... ...Even big scientific research workers' brains had and still have to stumble herewith... Hence, some kind of a clarification ought to be urgently necessary! So, captain, AHOY! A. There is ONLY ONE BASIC, fundamental Energy Conservation and Transformation Law. It is definitely unique and conceptually indivisible delivering two logically joint concepts - these are Energy Conservation - and Energy Transformation. Still, a more-then-100-years-old conceptual failure has brought us to two separate thermodynamic laws - but this has nothing in common with the actual physics. To come back, they have coined two more fake thermodynamic laws, employed the Probability Theory + Mathematical Statistics, and this has helped formulate the Quantum Mechanics, which is thus a basically metaphysical conceptual construction - and, hence, ought to be only restrictedly fruitful. B. By dividing the basically indivisible law, you are touching Combinatorics, you are touching Probability Theory, you are even stepping back to Thermodynamics for a while, but... You are NOT answering the poser: WHAT IS ENTROPY, sorry! 1. In the formula S = kB * ln(Ω) you do imply, Ω means not a "Huge Number of Microstates", not "Probability", which numerically ranges between [0,1], not even "Wavefunction", which ought to be a purely metaphysical notion, as it is... In effect, Ω ought to be a simplistic algebraic function of Lord Kelvin's Absolute Temperature. This result has been published 100 years ago in JACS. 2. WHAT-ENTROPY-IS-poser has been answered not by Clausius, not by Boltzmann, etc., but by Goethe, who has introduced Mephistopheles, the philosophical embodiment of ENTROPY. 3. Newton did basically know WHAT ENTROPY IS - A Counteraction. 4. That Counteractions do not grow to infinity with the growing Actions, but MUST reach their MAXIMUM values, is the result by Nicky Carnot, which has been formalized by Clausius... 5. In effect, J. W. Gibbs Free Energy formula: (ΔG = U + pV - TS, .i.e., ΔG = H - TS, where U is the internal energy (SI unit: joule), p is pressure (SI unit: pascal), V is volume (SI unit: m3 = m*m*m), T is the temperature (SI unit: kelvin), S is the entropy (SI unit: joule per kelvin), H is the enthalpy (SI unit: joule)) renders implicit the interplay among ALL the relevant Actions (the Enthalpic term) and ALL the pertinent Counteractions (the Entropic term). 6. The standard approach you are reporting about is OK for the implicit Enthalpy-Entropy picture, employing it, e.g., for studying reaction mechanism details is likewise eating soup with a fork. The above is about 'Entropy' in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc., etc., etc. ... Entropy in other fields: Be aware of a powerful trend to build up misnomers in many other fields, for Entropy is the proper term solely for the "Energy Transformation", whatever nature/origin this energy might be of. The Arrow of Time: This is not due solely to Entropy, but owing to Eternal Entropy-Enthalpy Compensation. This is why, the Heat Death you are proclaiming over and over again ought to be just a useless legacy.🧐

I heard it explained that this is why wired earbuds tend to get inextricably tangled in a pocket: there’s only one way for them to be untangled and nearly an infinite number of ways for them to be tangled. The likelihood of it being untangled is very low compared to any other configuration.

This channel is next level

I come here for good clear thoughts. I'm never disappointed.

I hadn't watched this video before....then I saw it.....and now I'm MORE useful. I tricked entropy right outta business!

This channel is so underrated!!

Great as always! Thanks!!

ScienceClic! I'm your new fan! I love watching Science videos, but trust me, you're the first ever Science channel I've subscribed to. Your explanations are spot on! To a point that is just right for me. Can you do dark matter/energy next time? Videos from other channels just don't suffice for me for some reason, and I hope that you'd consider!

Love these, a lot. Keep em comin baby!

fascinating video and really well deliverd.

Brilliant science explanation plus ASMR.

Best video on entropy on YT! I’ve been looking, too, to help explain it to my high school son. As always, great work. Now just stop saying “further” when the correct word for physical distance is “farther” hahaha.

I am still a low entropy system relieved to say at least for this Planck space and moment.Thanks for your remarkably simple methods.Cogito ergo sum!

great; more on entropy and the arrow of time please

I just finished your videos explaining general and special relativity and I have to say I was caught off guard by your natural talent as a teacher. Your videos are very impressive on their own, and you're ability to dive into such nuanced theories for 10-15 min at a time, without going on tangents or losing your focus, is what really makes you such an effective teacher in my mind. I genuinely understood 100% of all the things you said, which is not something I get out of any other videos from educational KZfaqrs like Vsauce, PBS Space Tme or Veritasium, even though they're titans with millions of subs and plenty of money and time. Other educational videos almost always start with a single topic, but become unintentionally superfluous as unnecessary tangential information is pilled on. You are laser focused, you'll give several extremely relevant, yet simple experiments that offer unique visual representations in order to shed more light on a single topic. You did this while covering general relativity when you visualized space-time in 3d while also using a warping grid to represent the passage of time as an apple falls towards earth. Considering your other videos and explanations, it's easy to see how creative, concise and coherent you are as a creator/educator overall. Serious props man, you're fantastic

Thank you! I'd learned and knew entropy is positive in each system since every non-equilibrium sysm goes toward increasing disorder, but you simply introduced homogeneity, which explains this concept more sensible.

This is an amazing explanation

The best way to describe entropy is that the universe is slowly but surely grinding down and erasing all traces of us humans ever having existed

I can't believe you're only 23. It's one thing to have an educational background as impressive as yours, as well as talent with music and art. But the fact that you're able to write and produce things in such an explainable manner at such a young age is just prodigious. I thought originally that this must have been a team of people. I was shocked when I clicked your bio link.

I was just REALLY thinking about this.

I'm not sure that the explanation of the tendency for entropy to increase with time explains the arrow of time. The thought experiment (and discussion that follows) I first heard from Carlo Rovelli: Imagine removing the partition in the middle of a box separating vacuum and a uniform gas; allow the gas to evolve in time and it begins to partially fill out the previously empty space; before equilibrium is reached, say when the gas is "3/4 of the way to uniform" freeze time; if, then, we evolve forward in time, the expansion completes as expected, but, if instead we run time backwards, **the same thing happens**, the gas still evolves to a high entropy state, filling the container uniformly! So why do we associate an arrow of time with an increase with entropy? Because entropy was lower in the past. The gas was pumped into half the container using low entropy electricity generated by low entropy fuels that came from low entropy solar radiation and on and on back to the big bang. Why was entropy lower in the past? That is the mystery. Hopefully someone else remembers this argument better and can provide some links!

This is epic! You should try doing a video on the quantum hall effect :)

I love this. Thank you!!! 🥰

The entropy of this channel never increases.

Incredible good approach to explain this complex term entropy ...Ludwig Boltzmann would be delighted...

this brings so many more questions if only we understood the universe at its smallest scale...

can i just say that i love this channel

Yo that particle arrangement diagram was swag as hell. Could you consider making art using that style?

What an explanation!!🤩

This is the first time entropy has clicked for me. Thank you.

I am thiking about the time and then I see your uploaded video :D I love it!!

Been waiting for a video like this. Entropy is best understood is a heat tax and the reason why time only travels forward. To reverse time is to reverse physical processes, and a perfectly reversible process with no energy loss is not possible because a perfect insulator would imply it aborbs molecular collisions without absorbing energy.

Nice explanation... Thanks you.

Would ya look at that, perfect timing on checking my subscriptions

I love your work!!!! Thank you :)

Excellent video

As always, great video!