Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look

Re:Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Anoth... by antonvs on Monday June 16, 2025 @02:18PM (#44292016)

You’re glossing over an important point: your knowledge of the future state of the system is “heads or tails”.

One of the things entropy tells us how a system is likely to evolve in future. But looking at this another way, entropy actually helps dictate how it will evolve in future. And we can prove that mathematically.

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Re:Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Anoth... by ajkjk on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:25PM (#44300898)

What are you talking about?

Entropy doesn't tell us that at all. Entropy tells us how much data is encodes between two ways of describing a value. It has nothing to do with time at all.

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Re:Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Anoth... by antonvs on Thursday June 19, 2025 @05:38AM (#44316959)

You're confusing two different perspectives on entropy without understanding either properly. In physics, which is what's being discussed, entropy is certainly closely related to time.

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