Lexicon of Arguments

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II 61
Negative probability/Weinberg/Genz: negative probability is absurd. That is controversial(1).
II 266ff
Probability/micro-state/Gas/Genz: it is so unlikely that all molecules will come together in the left half of the container and leave the right half empty that it will not occur in world ages. This is a physical "never" or "always", not a mathematical one.
>Physics, >Mathematics, >Entropy, >Second Law of Thermodynamics.


1) See: http://www.wissenschaft.de/technik-kommunikation/physik/-/journal_content/56/12054/1196196/Negative-Wahrscheinlichkeiten-der-Quantenmechanik-experimentell-best%C3%A4tigt/
(03.0.4.2023).

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