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Re:Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Anoth... by sat_solver on Monday June 16, 2025 @07:10AM (#44288451)
You're thinking of information entropy, which is not the same concept as entropy in physics. An ice cube in a warm room can be described using a minimum description length as "ice cube in a warm room" (or a crystal structure inside a fluid space), but if you wait until the heat death of the universe, you just have "a warm room" (a smooth fluid space), which will have an even shorter mdl. Von Neuman should never have repurposed the term entropy from physics. Entropy confuses a lot of people, including me.
Re:Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Anoth... by hackinthebochs on Monday June 16, 2025 @08:17AM (#44288852)
Maxwell's demon thought experiment implies they are the same concept. Given a complete knowledge of every particle of gas you can in principle create unphysical low entropy distributions of the particles. This[1] goes into more detail.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_...

Re:Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Anoth... by bavell on Monday June 16, 2025 @08:57AM (#44289092)
Re:Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Anoth... by nick__m on Monday June 16, 2025 @08:06AM (#44288781)
And somewhat surprisingly the heat death of the universe is the maximal entropy state.

Because there are an infinite number of microstates (all the particles are interchangeable) that lead to the same macrostate: nothing happening for ever!