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Entropy refers to the accumulation of disorder in the system in the context of its future options. If it has too many options, or too few, it implodes.

For example, consier the parable of the essential road:

If a road becomes essential, the willingness to take it out of service to replace it decreases, so it can never be repaired, only patched. Over time you end up with a terrible road because no one can afford to have it be out of service for long because it would paralyze the society.

Another parable of entropy is the to-do list. When the list becomes too long, you have no idea where to start, nor is there any point doing any of it, because the list will remain long no matter what you do. Have a beer and watch the game instead.

Entropy is an excuse for normies to do nothing. Everything dies over time, so let’s die now, because it’s convenient for me for society to perish so I can hide in the chaos and do what I desire, even though it’s probably less interesting than I think.

Nature manages entropy through renewal. It destroys (death) the parts of the road that need repair so that they must be fixed and also, so that other roads are formed. Nature has no main streets, only a lattice of streets which are all inefficient to varying degrees.

Consider that nature calculates outcomes in order to guarantee perpetuity:

This framework is based on the second law of thermodynamics, which states that any naturally occurring process in the Universe will result in a loss of usable energy and an increase in a system’s measure of disorder, or entropy. The second law of infodynamics, by contrast, requires ‘information entropy’ to either remain at the same level, or even decrease over time.

Gravity, according to Vopson’s new paper, can be taken as an indicator of the pixellation of matter distribution in the Universe. When multiple particles end up in the same pixel, they coalesce, so that each pixel contains only one “object,” Vopson lays out.

Humans desire to crush nature by enforcing equality on it, but nature prefers to have flexibility, resiliency, and internal variation in order to resist entropy which is a fancy term for so much repetition or randomness that all decisions become equally insignificant.

Any naturally recurring process does not “lose” energy so much as pass it on to other processes which in turn pass it back over time. Energy like money is not lost, only moved around. This enables the system to avoid falling into stillness or stagnation.

Consider the power of black holes as a regenerative force:

If there’s one thing black holes are known for, it’s their insatiable, inescapable gravity. Stuff goes into a black hole. You’re not really going to get much out.

From beyond the event horizon, this is, as far as we know, true. But from the space around a black hole, you might be able to get something. As Roger Penrose proposed in 1971, the powerful rotational energy of a spinning black hole could be used to amplify the energy of nearby particles.

In fact, black holes may initially calm a galaxy, but later on, emit energy:

We can’t experimentally replicate this gravitational effect; what the team’s experiment does is simulate it, using magnetic fields as a proxy for the particles, with the coils around the system acting as the reflector to produce the feedback loop.

When they ran the experiment, they found that, when the cylinder is rotating faster than, and in the same direction as, the magnetic field, the magnetic field is amplified, compared to when there is no cylinder. When the cylinder rotates more slowly than the magnetic field, however, the magnetic field is dampened.

Like anything else, entropy serves a purpose in nature: it forces energy to move rather than become a closed-circuit tight loop in a localized context, which would compel other localities to follow the same path, resulting in heat-death of the whole.

Similarly gravity ensures that objects interact and do not become isolated. Nature fears stillness, which is not the same as a lack of change; a constant rate of change would achieve the same thing, as would random change.

The more we understand of the underlying mathematical order to life, the more we see its elegance and how it inevitably reaches into the metaphysical. For all of this to operate as it does, it must have an external source of raw data that provides a basis for the motion of energy.

Tags: entropy, gravity, thermodynamics