Entropy - 'Unshatter' (from Shattering a Silicon Wafer)

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When a silicon wafer is shattered, the pieces are no longer connected. The process is shown in reverse. The shattered pieces of a silicon wafer "assemble themselves" back into the original wafer. The situation shown is so highly improbable that we would not expect to observe it in nature.

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