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Many particles starting from one region of state space - Note that the initially-rectangular region evolves into an ever-more-sheared parallelogram, but ITS AREA REMAINS CONSTANT. This is Liouville's theorem. - It is worth viewing this gif in a player that allows you to step through the frames (eg xanim). - -