DAE notice how entropy explanations in online videos tend to... gloss over the statistical part?
I was trying to understand the second law of thermodynamics for a project, and every educational video I found would start with the classic 'disorder' analogy... but then never connect it back to the actual probability of microstates. It's like they're selling this intuitive picture that falls apart when you think about it for more than a minute. I spent hours watching these, and they all follow the same pattern: show a shuffled deck of cards or a broken egg, call it entropy, and move on. What frustrates me is the trend towards accessibility at the cost of depth, leaving viewers with a hollow understanding that doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Personally, I had to dig into textbooks to get that 'aha' moment about phase space and multiplicity... which isn't as flashy but actually makes sense. It feels like a disservice because once you have that flawed mental model, it's harder to unlearn. I wish creators would at least hint at the statistical mechanics foundation, even if briefly, to bridge the gap between analogy and reality...