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I believe that is not true. If arrangements mean arrangements in space, then if I have twenty objects randomly distributed, and then four objects bind as one, I have only five, and these arranged randomly in space have lower entropy. A plasma is more random than the set of atoms of the same particles wholly formed in the same space. I guess I am counting wrong but this seems right to me (even accounting for spin mass motion etc.).

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Robert Thibadeau
Robert Thibadeau

Written by Robert Thibadeau

Carnegie Mellon University since 1979 — Cognitive Science, AI, Machine Learning, one of the founding Directors of the Robotics Institute. rht@brightplaza.com

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