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What does "order" mean? It means different things to a waitress, a lawyer, an artist, and a thermodynamicist. Take two identical bags of electron-marbles and from the marbles in one of the bags arrange them into a picture of the mona lisa and in the other glob them together into a mass. Which has greater order?
Chee, how do you think of things like that, k?I'd have to say the Mona Lisa has the greater order, because the marbles' positions would definitely not be random, whereas when they are "globbed together", they would be: each would be nestled up against whichever of numerous potential "partners" happened to be closest.Wofa...that was terrible! <grin>
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