The Theory of Entropicity (ToE) Dethrones the Observer and the Observer's Privileged Role in Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: Modern Theoretical Physics Under Scrutiny and on Trial
John Onimisi Obidi (unrelated to the social media personality of a similar name) is a researcher [as well a consultant, investigator, thinker, physicist, philosopher, and humanist] who, in early (February) 2025, proposed the Theory of Entropicity (ToE), a speculative framework that elevates entropy to the status of a fundamental field governing all physical reality, from which phenomena like relativity, gravity, and quantum effects purportedly emerge.
In ToE, entropy is not merely a statistical measure of disorder but the generative substrate of spacetime, causality, and geometry itself, enforced by principles like the No-Rush Theorem (limiting entropy redistribution to finite rates, akin to the speed of light) and the Spectral Obidi Action (a variational principle deriving dynamics from entropic eigenvalues).
Obidi derives Einstein's special relativity from ToE by reinterpreting effects like time dilation, length contraction, and mass increase as physical consequences of entropic capacity constraints during motion, rather than kinematic artifacts of observer-dependent reference frames. For instance, as an object's velocity increases, more entropic "capacity" is allocated to maintaining motion, leaving less for internal processes (causing time to slow) or spatial coherence (causing contraction), all without invoking Minkowski geometry as primary—it's emergent instead. This extends to critiques of other entropy-based gravity theories, like Bianconi's, where Obidi argues ToE avoids ontological dualism by making entropy monistic and generative.
Central to ToE is the claim that it "dethrones" the observer: in traditional relativity and quantum mechanics, observers play a foundational role in defining frames, measurements, and wave function collapse. Obidi inverts this, positing observers as local subsystems embedded within and constrained by the entropic field—so that reality itself is "pre-computed" by entropy's dynamics before any observation occurs, thereby rendering the observer secondary and non-privileged. If validated, this could unify physics under an entropy-centric paradigm.
Thus, in his Theory of Entropicity (ToE), John Onimisi Obidi has dethroned the observer in theoretical physics. ToE remains a radical and provocative proposal in modern theoretical physics, and is being heavily and rapidly developed to answer and explain empirical and experimental data, which outcome would help secure its adoption by the physics community.
The observer's role—central in quantum interpretations like Copenhagen or QBism, and frame-dependent in relativity—hence remains on a challenged ground within the emerging entropic principles of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE).
Of equal importance, we note that John Onimisi Obidi's ideas in his Theory of Entropicity (ToE) are also very intriguing for the philosophy of physics and philosophy of science.
Conclusion
A core claim of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) is that it dethrones the observer, replacing observer-dependent interpretations and derivations of relativity and quantum mechanics with an objective, entropy-driven reality.
Core Claims of the Theory of Entropicity
Entropy as Fundamental: In contrast to mainstream physics, where entropy is a statistical measure of disorder, ToE elevates it to a primary, dynamic field that dictates the structure of reality.
Observer-Independence: The theory argues that physical effects like time dilation, mass increase, and length contraction are real physical consequences of entropy conservation and flow, not just relative effects dependent on an observer's frame of reference. Thus the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) compels us to overhaul and revise our modes and ways of thought by teaching us that the "observer" is just another physical system constrained by the entropic field, making observation an effect, not a cause, of physical reality.
Derivation of Physical Laws: ToE aims to derive, rather than assume, the postulates of existing physics.
Relativity: The constant speed of light (c) is a consequence of the maximum rate of entropic rearrangement (reconfiguration, redistribution, reorganization, etc), not a primary postulate of spacetime geometry. Relativistic effects are thus "entropic inevitabilities".
Quantum Mechanics: Wavefunction collapse is an objective, law-like process that occurs when an entropy threshold is reached, without requiring a conscious observer.
Gravity: Gravity is not a fundamental force or spacetime curvature, but emerges from entropy gradients in the entropic field.
Philosophical shift: This dethronement of the observer from the arena of physics and science by the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) ultimately challenges anthropocentric physics, thereby reframing reality as fundamentally entropic rather than participatory.
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