If instead we’d started out with a big light-gray square—meaning that both particles had amplitude-factors widely spread—then the second law of thermodynamics would prohibit the combined system from developing into a tight dark-gray diagonal line.
In the model we suppose that the particles are attracted to each other. So what exactly does this sentence mean—that if both particles have wide amplitude spread, they somehow stop attracting each other?
I would expect that even if we start with a system “a positive article can be anywhere, a negative particle may be anywhere”, it would develop towards “positive and negative particles anywhere, but probably close to each other”. Wouldn’t that make a dark-gray line?
In the model we suppose that the particles are attracted to each other. So what exactly does this sentence mean—that if both particles have wide amplitude spread, they somehow stop attracting each other?
I would expect that even if we start with a system “a positive article can be anywhere, a negative particle may be anywhere”, it would develop towards “positive and negative particles anywhere, but probably close to each other”. Wouldn’t that make a dark-gray line?
Please help.
EDIT: Found this.