I can move forward but never back, I oversee the universe’s clockwork, yet I am not a tick or a tock. What am I?
Category: Science · Difficulty: hard
Hint: Think about disorder in a system.
Answer
Disorder
Explanation
Entropy measures the amount of disorder in a system and always increases in closed systems, representing the forward march of time.
This is a hard science riddle — a tricky one that takes a little thought. The answer is Disorder.
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