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Well lifetimes of shaking is not practical is it.

Marbles in a jar are not arranged in a neat spacial grid, but in all kinds of configurations.

The chance of recovering any near perfect starting symmetry, depending on the size of a jar, might take decades or millions, or more years.

In the meantime, all that energy being used to shake the jar is generating huge amounts of heat entropy.



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