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the man who proved the universe prefers chaos and paid for it with his life.

means ludwig boltzmann founded statistical mechanics by showing entropy is just the number of ways atoms can be arranged messily.

from in 1870s vienna, boltzmann derived s=k log w, tying thermodynamic entropy to the probability of microscopic states, at a time when many scientists still doubted atoms even existed.

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