[stormer]

“They can’t be offset in a closed system. The bricks need specific guided information and energy to be ordered into a neat stack.”

What if the bricks were spherical? Then they would order themselves without any additional energy input or information. (And don’t say, “Cause bricks aren’t round” - I think you understand my point.)

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

What if the bricks were spherical? Then they would order themselves without any additional energy input or information

Entropy is essentially about the probabilities of outcomes of a random process.

I dropped a nickel on the sidewalk once. The probability of how it would land is of course 50% heads 50% tails.

But this one time it landed on its edge. And stayed on its edge until I picked it up.

So there's always the probability the if we randomally toss bricks or bowling balls into the air enough times we can get a neat stack.

Las Vegas was built by people whose goal was to get the neat stack.