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Since heat transfer is caused by random collision of particles, is it mathematically possible that your hand could touch a hot pan and you actually heat up the pan with your hand?

I know the probability of this would be inconceivably small so it would never actually happen, but is it mathematically possible that: because heat transfer is based on random collisions of particles, all the hot particles just so happen to bounce from your hand to a hot so that the net heat transfer is positive? This would mean that instead of the pan heating up your hand, your hand transfers even more heat to the pan.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding physics, just a fun question I thought of.
gpt
>I know the probability of this would be inconceivably small so it would never actually happen

Yes.

>but is it mathematically possible that: because heat transfer is based on random collisions of particles, all the hot particles just so happen to bounce from your hand to a hot so that the net heat transfer is positive?

Yes.

The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy tends to increase, and in any realistic thermodynamic system, entropy is **much** more likely to increase than decrease, even though it's technically not impossible.

Increasing entropy implies that heat must flow from higher temperature to lower temperature. So the situation you're describing would mean that entropy is decreasing, so you'll never observe that in any realistic situation.