CONTEXT-RICH One afternoon, the mother of one of your

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CONTEXT-RICH One afternoon, the mother of one of your friends walks into his room and finds a mess. She asks your friend how the room came to be in such a state, and your friend replies, Well, it is the natural destiny of any closed system to degenerate toward greater and greater levels of entropy. Thats all, Mom. Her reply is a sharp Nevertheless, youd better clean your room. Your friend retorts, But that cant happen. It would violate the second law of thermodynamics. Critique your friends response. Is his mother correct to ground him for not cleaning his room, or is cleaning the room really impossible?

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