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Blade Runner's Tears in Rain | The Mixing Paradox | Physics vs Film

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Channel: Martin Archer · 2017 · Science & Technology

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With Blade Runner 2049 out soon, I revisit the original film's most iconic moment the "Tears in Rain" monologue. Turns out it touches upon a strange aspect of entropy, the so-called Mixing Paradox.

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Blade Runner's Tears in Rain monologue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_monologue
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/14/why-blade-runner-is-timeless

Gibbs Paradox and Mixing Paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_paradox
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/tuckerman/stat.mech/lectures/lecture_6/node5.html
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/statphys/jaynes.pdf

Entropy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Therm/entrop.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_entropy

Second Law of Thermodynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/seclaw.html

Indistinguishable Particles
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/37556/what-are-distinguishable-and-indistinguishable-particles-in-statistical-mechanic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_particles
https://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~pdh1001/thesis/node14.html


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