That's remarkably well done, but the underlying principle can be summarised as "regression towards the mean" which is not so difficult to understand.
Now explain this: when the sheep are cooped up in one box you can extract energy from the system. This becomes apparent if you imagine the boundary between the boxes is a fan. As the sheep move from what is a high pressure on one side to 0 pressure on the other they will move the fan. Attach a generator to the fan, and you get energy out.
This configuration, with high pressure on the side low on the other, will happen every so often through random chance. Admittedly not very often, in fact so rarely it's useless to us. But in principle we have a perpetual motion machine.
We don't, of course. But why not?
And more to the point is the 2nd law nothing more than a statement of averages? By which I mean "order always tends towards disorder" is in fact false. We will every so often see order arise from disorder. So the 2nd law is not really a hard and fast law, any more then "you always loose when gambling at the casino" is a hard and fast law.
Now explain this: when the sheep are cooped up in one box you can extract energy from the system. This becomes apparent if you imagine the boundary between the boxes is a fan. As the sheep move from what is a high pressure on one side to 0 pressure on the other they will move the fan. Attach a generator to the fan, and you get energy out.
This configuration, with high pressure on the side low on the other, will happen every so often through random chance. Admittedly not very often, in fact so rarely it's useless to us. But in principle we have a perpetual motion machine.
We don't, of course. But why not?
And more to the point is the 2nd law nothing more than a statement of averages? By which I mean "order always tends towards disorder" is in fact false. We will every so often see order arise from disorder. So the 2nd law is not really a hard and fast law, any more then "you always loose when gambling at the casino" is a hard and fast law.