The mixing of festive sweetmeats and the stirring of cream into coffee are toothsome examples of the irreversibility of physical processes. In certain systems, however, the concept gets its just desserts.
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Shinbrot, T. Drat such custard!. Nature 438, 922–923 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/438922a
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