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Yet, the question remains: What precisely renders entropy and the Second Law fundamental? To approach this question, we must consider the nature of emergent properties, which arise from the statistical behavior of large collections of particles. For instance, while a room full of air has a measurable temperature, a single air molecule does not possess temperature in the same sense; its behavior is dictated by its velocity and mass. Emergent properties, including entropy, pose a challenge to conventional views of fundamental laws, which typically focus on the individual behaviors of particles.