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Regarding the increase of entropy globally while entropy decreases locally in that paper that you shared with us, at first, I thought oh poor luck to the rest of the universe screeching by at increased entropy while a limited scope of its membership is enjoying a reduction of entropy. And then I stopped myself in mid tears and remembered that that's not the way it necessarily has to work out. Because I've done simulated circuits in which entropy increases in one area of the circuit while entropy decreases in other areas of the circuit and when they are magnetically coupled together the benefit is an overall increase of power.

no let me back up

it's the impedance that increases in certain areas of the circuit while it diminishes elsewhere and all the while current is reversing itself 180° making an overall diminishment of entropy across the entire circuit

now I don't know how physics views impedance. Does it view it as a diagnostic symptom of entropy? Because if that's so then I don't have to correct myself.

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