Once you start saying that gravity, gas expansion etc. are optimization process, it kinda sounds like everything is an optimization process, which isn’t very useful.
Entropy-generating processes are the ones that perform optimisation—specifically processes where there a range of different outcomes with different entropies. Gravity barely qualifies—but friction certainly does—and it is not gravity but friction that keeps the pinball down.
Entropy-generating processes are the ones that perform optimisation—specifically processes where there a range of different outcomes with different entropies. Gravity barely qualifies—but friction certainly does—and it is not gravity but friction that keeps the pinball down.