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X 0. The expression above now trivially integrates to unity that allows us to write the so-called [14]: Integral Fluctuation Theorem heÀDStot ½X =kB i ¼ 1: ð1:46Þ This remarkably simple relation holds for all times, protocols, and initial conditions2) and implies that the possibility of negative total entropy change is obligatory. Furthermore, if we make use of Jensen’s inequality hexp ðzÞi ! exp hzi; ð1:47Þ we can directly infer hDStot i ! 0: ð1:48Þ Since this holds for any initial condition, we may also state that the mean total entropy monotonically increases for any process.
This then allows SGibbs to change, the detailed nature of which will depend on exactly how the environmental forces are represented. For an isolated system however, an increase in SGibbs will emerge only if we are obliged to coarse-grained aspects of the system itself. This line of development could be considered rather unsatisfactory, since it makes the entropy of an isolated system grain-size dependent, and alternatives may be imagined where the entropy of an isolated system is represented by something other than SGibbs .
We do not debate the meaning of Newton’s second law anymore, so why is the second law of thermodynamics so controversial? Well, it is hard to understand how there can be a physical quantity that never decreases. Such a statement demands the breakage of the principle of time reversal symmetry, a difficulty referred to as Loschmidt’s paradox. Newton’s equations of motion do not specify a preferred direction in which time evolves. Time is a coordinate in a description of the universe and it is just a convention that real-world events take place while this coordinate increases.