  A key axiom of equilibrium statistical physics is that all microstates are
equally probably in a thermally isolated system. Coupled with the laws of
Newtonian mechanics, quantum mechanics, chemistry, and thermal physics, one can
build from this axiom both complex and satisfactory models for macroscopic
phenomena. Here, we apply the precepts of statistical physics to a problem that
has puzzled scientists and engineers since its discovery in the 1980's: The
Entangled Laptop Cable Problem. Using a stochastic 2-dimensional simulation to
approximate projections of the 3+1-dimensional system, we shall see that the
overwhelmingly most probable state for a laptop cable is a severely tangled
one.
