Today we used a computer model to analyze the individual and aggregate levels of a system of particles undergoing thermal equilibration.
We observed that on the aggregate level we see uncontrolled systems moving toward states with equal energy distribution. On the individual level, we observed that particles are colliding with other particles and exchanging kinetic energy, either from the higher energy particle to the lower energy particle or from the lower energy particle to the higher energy particle (this is based on laws of conservation of momentum).
