Obidi's Unification Theory of Entropicity (ToE) and its Revolutionary New Law of Observation: Why Two Observers Can Never See the Same Event at the Same Instant
The Theory of Entropicity (ToE), as first formulated and further developed by John Onimisi Obidi, introduces a radical and transformative perspective. It asserts that observation is not merely a transfer of information; it is a transfer of entropy, and this transfer cannot occur instantaneously. There is an irreducible, finite entropy-processing time associated with every measurement. This leads to a result that is as profound as it is counterintuitive:
No two observers in the universe can observe the same event at exactly the same moment.
This is not a technological limitation.
It is not an epistemological limitation.
It is not a limitation of human physiology or of our measurement instruments.
It is a fundamental physical limitation built into the structure of reality.
And it changes everything.
Observation Is an Entropic Process, Not a Passive Glimpse
In ToE, entropy is not a statistical afterthought. It is the fundamental field of nature, the engine that drives motion, time, gravity, and all dynamical processes. Nothing occurs without a rearrangement of entropy. Every interaction—gravitational, quantum, electromagnetic—is mediated by the flow, redistribution, or collapse of entropy.
Observation, therefore, cannot be exempt. When an observer measures a system, whether by detecting light, absorbing particles, interacting quantum mechanically, or recording signals, they must absorb or process a discrete quantity of entropy. Without this entropic exchange, observation does not occur.
This is where the revolutionary shift emerges.
If measurement itself is an entropic event—and if entropy transfers require finite time—then:
Two observers cannot perform the exact same entropic interaction simultaneously.
One observer must collapse or absorb the required entropy first, and only after this entropic transaction completes can the second observer engage with the system.
This introduces a new kind of fundamental delay in physics:
an entropic delay, not caused by distance, light propagation, or relativity, but by the finite processing rate of entropy itself.
The First Observer Defines the Entropic State
Consider two observers, O₁ and O₂, watching a single event E—for example, a particle striking a screen, a flash of light, or a microscopic event inside an atom. Classical physics would say they can both see it at the same time. Quantum mechanics would say the event collapses to a definite state when measured, but says nothing about whether multiple observers can collapse the same event simultaneously.
ToE answers this precisely: they cannot.
When O₁ receives the entropic signal from E, the entropic field must reconfigure itself. This reconfiguration requires a finite time interval—call it ΔS, the entropic interaction interval. During this interval, the entropic state is transitioning, reorganizing, and redistributing its structure to accommodate the newly collapsed information.
O₂ cannot receive a perfectly simultaneous entropic transfer because:
- the entropic field cannot collapse twice at once,
- the entropy needed for O₂’s observation is not yet available,
- the system is still reorganizing from O₁’s measurement.
Thus the second observer sees the event only after a strictly positive delay. Not due to distance. Not due to signal propagation. But because the entropic collapse cannot be duplicated at the same instant.
This delay may be incredibly small—attoseconds, zeptoseconds, or even below Planck scale depending on the system—but it is never zero.
Observation Creates a Micro-Causal Chain of Entropic Events
This insight introduces a new micro-causality structure into physics.
Observation is not symmetrical.
It is not time-reversible.
It is not infinitely repeatable in the same instant.
Instead, ToE shows that observations occur in a strict entropic sequence. Every measurement is a step in a chain of entropy collapses, each separated by a non-zero entropic interval.
This has enormous implications:
• It breaks the classical idea of simultaneous observation.
• It replaces “observer equivalence” with an entropic hierarchy of measurement.
• It introduces a new physical cause for the arrow of time.
• It forces a reevaluation of simultaneity independent of relativity.
• It leads to testable predictions in ultrafast physics and quantum optics.
In other words, ToE transforms “measurement” from a passive phenomenon into a dynamical event with its own intrinsic temporal structure.
A New Interpretation of Wave Function Collapse
Quantum mechanics has always struggled with the question:
Why does a measurement collapse the wave function?
ToE gives a deeper answer:
collapse is the entropic reconfiguration of the system.
In this framework, the first observer does not magically force the system into a definite state. Instead:
• The entropy field surrounding the system must redistribute.
• The entropic flow into the observer must stabilize.
• The system must reorganize into a new entropic minimum.
Only after this reconfiguration completes is it even possible for a second observer to interact with the updated entropic structure.
This solves a long-standing puzzle:
Why does quantum collapse appear to be instantaneous for one observer but not replicable across multiple simultaneous observers?
Because the collapse is not instantaneous, and it cannot be duplicated, because entropy cannot be processed twice at the same time.
Relativity Describes Simultaneity of Signals; ToE Describes Simultaneity of Entropic Access
Einstein’s relativity states that two observers may disagree on whether two events are simultaneous, because simultaneity is coordinate-dependent. But relativity does not address whether two observers can observe the same event at the same instant.
ToE answers directly:
They cannot.
Relativity deals with the geometry of spacetime.
ToE deals with the dynamics of entropy flow.
These are not contradictory.
They are orthogonal layers of description.
Relativity limits how fast signals move.
ToE limits how fast entropy can be transferred, collapsed, or processed.
Even if two observers are given signals at the “same” coordinate time, the entropic interaction interval guarantees that their entropic access to the event is not truly simultaneous.
Thus ToE introduces a deeper principle:
Simultaneity of reception is not simultaneity of entropic measurement.
No prior theory has made this distinction.
Observable Consequences and Experimental Predictions
The entropic delay between observers is not philosophical.
It is measurable in principle, and ToE predicts concrete consequences in:
• attosecond entanglement formation,
• time-domain interferometry,
• quantum state readout,
• delayed-choice experiments,
• high-precision quantum optics,
• gravitational entropic coupling near massive bodies.
The prediction that two observers cannot observe the same event at the same instant is not speculative; it is a direct consequence of the finite entropic time interval required for state reconfiguration. Experiments with attosecond pulses already show hints of this micro-sequencing of measurement.
The Theory of Entropicity turns measurement into a finite, quantifiable physical interaction, not a metaphysical abstraction.
The Entropic Revolution in Observation
The idea that observation is an entropic event is one of the most powerful conceptual shifts in modern theoretical physics. It changes how we think about measurement, causality, simultaneity, the arrow of time, and even the nature of reality itself.
If entropy is the foundational field of nature, then:
- no event is ever observed twice at the same instant,
- every observation is unique and sequential,
- the universe is fundamentally asymmetric in time,
- measurement is a physical process with finite duration,
- and the entropic clock of the universe governs all observation.
This is not merely a philosophical reinterpretation.
It is a physical law, derived from the structure of the entropic field.
It reshapes our understanding of what it means to see, to measure, and to know.
And it places the Theory of Entropicity at the frontier of a new physics—
a physics in which entropy is not the end of the story,
but the beginning.
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