thermodynamics-2

A two-panel comic with a dark background. Panel 1: a person asks, "How come teacup pieces always leap off the floor and assemble into solid cups, but the cups never fall on the ground and shatter?" Panel 2: another person answers, "Thermodynamics. Entropy always decreases. If things went the other way, the universe would be chaos. Everything breaking down. Things probably couldn't exist long enough to even contemplate the question." The joke inverts our usual arrow of time, so shattering is the impossible direction. A caption below reads, "I bet beings living in reverse time have much more enjoyable philosophical discussions." Votey: a glowing cyan figure made of swirling scribbled lines, like a being dissolving or coming together, says from a speech bubble, "My favorite part is approaching glorious glorious unity!"