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fruit flies are not ergodic (mander.xyz)
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from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic_hypothesis

A screenshot of an image from wikipedia with caption "This device can trap fruit flies, but if it trapped atoms when placed in gas that already uniformly fills the available phase space, then both Liouville's theorem and the second law of thermodynamics would be violated."
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That... is unsettling. I remember the fruit fly experiments I did in college, and I am now barfing imagining those vials being put opened in an orifice.

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