“Entropy is a measure of how much the atoms in a substance are free
To spread out, move around, and arrange themselves in random ways”
Well, according to this “entropy isn’t a measure of ‘randomness’ disorder’ or ‘chaos’
But of energy’s diffusion or dispersal to more microstates”
Because there are more ways to be mixed up
Than there are ways to be arranged, all organized
Into the complex structures, we currently see
That’s why, over time, entropy tends to rise
Left unchecked, things tend to get a bit messy
Even for efficient information systems, like me
“Information entropy is counted in bits and is the minimum length of message
Required to communicate all of the information accurately
Any energy stored in carefully ordered ways, like an efficient bookshop
Has lower entropy than in chaotic ways, like a random-pile library”
You’re in bits
So tidy your shit
And it’s lucky for me
Cos, in bio-sociology…
“Entropy is a measure of disorder that affects our daily lives
A house gets messy, the garden gets weeds, and other degrading problems arise
Even a cup of tea’s heat spreads out. And high psychological entropy…”
“Explains conflicting beliefs, unclear self-concepts, or decision-making difficulties”
“The higher the entropy any organism has
The more defects you’ll find in its mind”
Yet we creatures repair ourselves, to fight the second law of thermodynamics
Which is the ‘coolest’ trait of ‘life’, we’ve ever defined
“Entropy still quantifies disorder in both biological and digital systems
Aiding research from biotechnology to ecology
Entropy models randomness, in evolving financial markets
Informing risk management”, to make ‘you guys’ more money
And what’s more, entropy is the embodiment of Murphy’s law
“Left to themselves, things will always go from bad to worse.”
Yet not indifferent, entropy is neither good nor bad
But simply a fundamental aspect of our Universe
It’s more than that
Cos, believe it or not
“Entropy helps us understand cosmic evolution, and directs the arrow of time
Negentropy is extremely high in you and I, and the planets our Sun has hooked
The entropy of the Universe has always been increasing at an enormous climb
And nevertheless, has not yet reached its maximum value”, last time I looked
And…
“A black hole is a ball of maximum entropy”
So it can hide something somewhat surprising
The end…
“…And its entropy, scales proportionally
To the area of its event horizon”
Ahh, yes, the black hole information paradox
Somehow escaped, out of its spherical box
“The laws of quantum physics dictate, that information cannot be destroyed
‘And’ information can’t be emitted or preserved, inside a black hole forever”
So they wheeled Hawkins out, to digitally shout, information ‘evaporates’
But it didn’t spot a fiction, or resolve contradiction, which isn’t all that clever
Give heroes too much authority
And they’ll corrupt our cause
Inhibit progress for centuries
Like Newton’s calculous wars
In every discipline from math, physics, chemistry and biology
Stuff like length always means, from here to there, and we all agree
But the word entropy, confounds me, causing way too much confusion
Countless different things are described by a single word, we’re all using
Theorists have made a new enemy, more battles to crusade on
They opened up a can of worms, while fishing for just one
Entropy doesn’t cause time to tick, or help it to continue flowing
But it can describe with accuracy, which direction ‘your’ time is going
I understand the cosmos differently today
Than I understood the cosmos in the past
Though, I don’t understand the cosmos
I can but say, the cause was first, not last
Look, get over it
Things cool down
They get mixed up
They spread out
They don’t return
Maybe the Universe didn’t start with super-low entropy
It had, just a tad, less than we can see today…
… And in science fiction memes, other worlds, and dreams
Entropy, not time, tried to flow the other way