Ergodic hypothesis and microscopic reversibility support reversible dynamical process in nature, whereas the second law of thermodynamics says that since every dynamical system evolves under the presence of finite gradient with finite speed in finite time, therefore, system has to pay the surrounding and increase entropy. Evolution under the presence of finite gradient (chemical/electrical/magnetic/gravitational) will ensures that every directional dynamical process in nature will be irreversible. How then ergodicity, microscopic reversibility and irreversible second law of thermodynamics are compatible to each other?

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