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Nathan Hatch's avatar

"a kind of quiet tax paid by all things over time" 👁️👁️👁️

Gnorts Omen's avatar

Entropy is an aspect Observed with flaw; not a flaw of it's being, a flaw of its being the inevitable. Space doesn't Entropy, or does it? We exist, entropy is a calm that allows us Time; the inevitable is the opposite of entropy to entropy. The two coexist simultaneously most if the Time; beginning of the Universe has no beginning, there is a Time in which entropy does not exist, then it goes BANG!, and entropy coexists with its opposite, as Galaxies Form, and Space Expands.

The logic is, without needing a detailed explanation, what's observed at the beginning of the Universe, must be a part of a continuous cycle that exists FOREVER.

With that Logic, a state in which the absolute opposite of entropy occurs, is observably certain. When talking about eternity, inevitable is the opposite of entropy.

Chris Heape's avatar

This is a really good example of how you cast your word descriptions into a known context or experience.

The classic description of Entropy is ice cubes melting in water.

That’s it.

Indeed, it gets worse, as the image is used to describe human communication!

“In human interaction, entropy mirrors the “telephone game,” where a message whispered person-to-person distorts into noise or misunderstanding. Each retelling adds “heat” via imperfect memory, subjective bias, or linguistic variance, eroding original meaning like ice to water. Claude Shannon’s information theory quantifies this as signal degradation in noisy channels, inevitable without redundancy.”

Now that sure is engaging 😊

I’d prefer to have the coffee.

Best, Chris.