What most people miss
Microscopic laws often look reversible. The arrow we feel is statistical: far more ways to be messy than neat, so closed systems tend toward disorder.
Eggs don’t unbreak because statistics crowd the broken side — not because time is a moral decree.
Why it matters
Memory, heat engines, and why the past feels fixed all lean on this one-way grain of counting.
Human Life angle
Ordered lattice to loose heap — chalk entropy without fatalism or melting clocks.