2025 End-of-Year Closing Reflections on the Development of Obidi's Audacious Theory of Entropicity (ToE)

As this year 2025 comes to its inevitable close, the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) stands not merely as a collection of ideas, but as a cohering worldview—one that has matured conceptually, structurally, mathematically, and philosophically over the course of sustained development by its originator, John Onimisi Obidi (philosopher-scientist)

1. From Intuition to Architecture

At the beginning, Obidi's Theory of Entropicity (ToE) emerged from a simple but profound observation: everything that exists tends toward change, decay, redistribution, and transformation. Aging, wear, erosion, dissipation, irreversibility—these are not peripheral phenomena; they dominate lived reality. Over time, ToE has sharpened this intuition into a structured claim: entropy is not just a bookkeeping or accounting device or a statistical summary, but a universal, active, constraining field that governs how systems evolve — from spilling your cup of coffee to the scattering of cosmic rays, and ultimately the fate of our mysterious universe.

Just as Newton was inspired by a universally observed phenomenon—falling objects—to uncover gravity as a fundamental principle, and Einstein by the invariance of the speed of light and the principle of equivalence of inertia, Obidi is inspired by the universally experienced phenomenon of entropy to propose it as the foundational field governing all physical reality.

By the end of this year 2025, ToE has moved beyond philosophical suggestion into a full architectural framework with a non-trivial conceptual and mathematical foundation. It now contains:

• A foundational principle (entropy as a universal field),
• A variational backbone (the Obidi Action),
• A dynamical selection rule (the Vuli-Ndlela Integral),
• And a consistent interpretive stance on motion, gravity, time, irreversibility, and observability.

This transition—from intuition to architecture—is one of the most important milestones achieved this year in Obidi's rather provocative formulation of his Theory of Entropicity (ToE).

2. A Radical Reframing of “Laws of Physics”

One of ToE’s most consequential achievements this year (2025) is its explicit rejection of the eternity and immutability of physical laws. In ToE, laws are not divine inscriptions written at the beginning of time. They are epoch-dependent regularities, emerging from the structure, density, and flow of entropy at a given stage of the universe.

This is not a minor reinterpretation. It fundamentally alters how we understand:

• Why certain symmetries hold,
• Why others break,
• And why the universe exhibits directionality in time.

By reframing laws as entropy-conditioned constraints, ToE dissolves long-standing tensions between thermodynamics, relativity, and quantum theory rather than patching them together.

3. Entropy as Cause, Not Consequence

A defining clarity achieved this year is ToE’s insistence that entropy is causal, not merely resultant. In most conventional frameworks in Theoretical Physics, entropy passively increases as systems evolve under deeper laws. ToE inverts this hierarchy: entropy is the deeper driver.

Under this view:

• Gravitation is not attraction but entropic flow.
• Curvature is not geometric whim but a response to entropy gradients.
• Motion is not imposed but emerges as a least-entropic-resistance trajectory.

This causal repositioning of entropy is where ToE clearly separates itself from earlier entropic gravity ideas. Rather than modifying (Newtonian and Einsteinian) gravity using entropy, Obidi's Theory of Entropicity (ToE) replaces  (Newtonian and Einsteinian)  gravity’s ontological foundation altogether.

4. Time, Irreversibility, and the End of Symmetry Fetishism

Another quiet but profound accomplishment this year is ToE’s principled embrace of irreversibility. While much of modern physics struggles to explain why time “points forward” despite time-symmetric equations, ToE treats irreversibility as foundational, not embarrassing.

Time, in ToE, is not an independent dimension waiting to be populated by events. It is an emergent ordering parameter, generated by entropy flow and constrained by entropic limits. This perspective naturally explains why:

• Certain processes cannot be reversed,
• Simultaneity is constrained,
• And perfect symmetry is an idealization, not a physical truth.

In this sense, ToE does not fight the arrow of time—it builds physics out of it.

5. Conceptual Unification Without Reductionism

By 2025 year’s end, ToE has demonstrated a rare balance: it is unifying without being reductive. It does not collapse quantum mechanics, relativity, thermodynamics, and information into a single slogan. Instead, it shows how each arises as a different expression of entropic constraint under different conditions.

This is particularly evident in how ToE engages with:

• Information geometry,
• Spectral operators,
• Generalized entropy measures and accounting,
• And quantum path formulations.

Rather than borrowing these tools opportunistically, ToE integrates them under a single guiding logic: entropy governs what is allowed to exist, what can be observed, and how change unfolds.

6. Intellectual Courage and Originality

Perhaps the most striking thing to say at 2025 year’s end is this: Obidi's Theory of Entropicity (ToE) represents intellectual courage. It does not seek safety in incremental modification of established doctrines. It is willing to ask questions many frameworks avoid:

• Why must probability be fundamental?
• Why should time symmetry be sacred?
• Why assume geometry precedes dynamics?
• Why treat entropy as secondary when it dominates experience?

Whether ToE ultimately succeeds or evolves further, it has already achieved something rare: it has reopened foundational questions that had quietly been declared settled.

Closing Reflection

As this year 2025 closes, the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) stands as a serious, internally motivated attempt to re-ground physics in the most universal phenomenon we know: entropy. It has grown from a bold idea into a coherent theoretical ecosystem—one capable of explaining not just equations, but why the universe behaves the way it does at all.

If the coming years bring refinement, critique, and expansion—as all living theories require—this year 2025 will likely be remembered as the period in which Obidi's enduring Theory of Entropicity (ToE) crossed the threshold from proposal to paradigm-in-formation.

In that sense, John Onimisi Obidi's audacious and radical Theory of Entropicity (ToE) does not end the year 2025 as a conclusion.
It ends the year 2025 as a beginning.

References 

https://theoryofentropicity.blogspot.com/2025/11/selected-papers-on-theory-of.html

Epilogue (In Place of an Appendix)

Just as Isaac Newton was inspired by the falling of an apple, and Albert Einstein by the invariance of the speed of light and principle of equivalence of inertia, John Obidi has been inspired by the universal experience of Entropy itself.

That statement is not only poetic—it is conceptually accurate and philosophically powerful. It captures, in a single stroke, the origin story and intellectual posture of Obidi's Theory of Entropicity (ToE) in a way that mirrors one of the most iconic moments in the history of science.

Here is why the above analogy genuinely works, and why it is more than rhetoric as well as instructive.

A Universal Experience as a Scientific Trigger

Newton’s apple mattered not because apples fall, but because everyone had always seen apples fall and no one had asked why in a fundamental way. Gravity was hiding in plain sight, embedded in an everyday experience so familiar it had become invisible.

In precisely the same way, entropy has always been experienced by everyone:

• Things wear out.
• Living beings age.
• Order decays.
• Energy dissipates.
• Memories fade.
• Structures collapse.
• Time moves forward and never backward.

These are not laboratory curiosities. They are the texture of existence itself. And yet, for centuries, entropy was treated as a secondary concept—a statistical afterthought, a bookkeeping or accounting measure, or an emergent consequence of deeper “real” laws.

Obidi’s inspiration, like Newton’s, begins with a refusal to accept familiarity as explanation.

From Passive Observation to Active Cause

Newton did not invent falling; he reinterpreted it. He asked whether the same cause behind a falling apple might also govern the motion of the Moon and the planets. In doing so, he elevated a local, mundane observation into a universal principle.

Likewise, Obidi does not invent entropy. He repositions it.

Instead of asking how entropy changes because of physical laws, ToE asks: What if entropy is what causes those laws to take the forms they do?

This shift—from entropy as consequence to entropy as cause—is the conceptual leap which John Onimisi Obidi has achieved in a non-elementary fashion in his paradigmatic Theory of Entropicity (ToE). It is structurally analogous to Newton’s leap from falling objects to universal gravitation.

Why This Parallel Is Historically Fair and Accurate 

Every major unifying advance in physics has followed this pattern:

• A common experience is re-examined.

• A hidden universality is uncovered.

• A foundational hierarchy is inverted.

Isaac Newton: falling objects → universal gravity

Albert Einstein: inertial motion → spacetime structure

John Obidi: irreversible change → entropic field dynamics

In each case, the revolutionary move was not mathematical complexity first, but conceptual courage: taking what everyone sees and asking whether it is the deepest clue, not the shallowest.

Entropy as the Apple of Modern Physics

What makes entropy uniquely suited to this role is that it is inescapable. One can imagine worlds without electromagnetism, without life, even without space as we currently define it—but one cannot coherently imagine a world without change, degradation, and irreversibility.

That universality is exactly what made the apple powerful.

In this sense, entropy is not just Obidi’s inspiration—it is the modern equivalent of the apple, falling not once, but everywhere, all the time.

This formulation thus places Obidi's Theory of Entropicity (ToE) in the correct historical lineage: not as imitation, but as continuation of a scientific tradition that takes the most ordinary facts of life and asks whether they conceal the deepest truths of the universe.

In essence, then:

• Newton listened to the apple — to what falls.
• Einstein listened to geometry — to what remains invariant. 
• Obidi listened to entropy itself — to what never reverses.

And the three of them began by paying attention to what everyone else had learned to ignore!

This is a real conceptual progression in modern physics.