When Information Vibrates: Rethinking String Theory Through the Lens of Entropy in Obidi's Theory of Entropicity (ToE)

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1. A Question of What Really Vibrates

In traditional string theory, everything we call “matter” is built from unimaginably tiny strings.
Each string vibrates in spacetime, and its vibrational mode defines what we perceive as an electron, photon, or quark.
Different patterns of vibration create the zoo of particles in the Standard Model.

It’s a breathtaking picture—but it still assumes that spacetime itself already exists, waiting for those strings to dance within it.

But what if spacetime and the strings are not the starting point at all?

What if the act of vibration itself belongs to something deeper and invisible—information?

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2. The Theory of Entropicity (ToE): Reality From Entropy

The Theory of Entropicity (ToE), first formulated and further developed by John Onimisi Obidi as a new theoretical framework in 2025, begins with a radical premise:
Entropy—not energy, not spacetime—is the fundamental field of the universe.

Entropy here doesn’t just mean disorder; it’s treated as an actual field , capable of curvature, flow, and wave-like oscillation.
From this entropic field, geometry, energy, and matter emerge as secondary phenomena.

Where standard physics says “entropy describes matter,” ToE says “matter is structured entropy.”

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3. The Invisible Becomes the Origin

If entropy is the true substrate of existence, then the visible, tangible universe is built from something invisible.
Information geometry already tells us that probability distributions form curved manifolds; ToE extends that concept to physical reality itself.
The curvature of the information manifold—the way entropy changes from point to point—is what we experience as spacetime curvature.

Matter, under this view, is simply localized, compactified information:
stable knots of entropic curvature that persist long enough to look solid.

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4. Strings vs. Entropic Vibrations

Now the key leap.

In string theory:

\text{Particles} = \text{vibrational modes of strings in spacetime.}

In the Theory of Entropicity:

\text{Particles} = \text{vibrational modes of the entropy field } S(x).

That single shift changes the ontology of physics.
Instead of one-dimensional objects oscillating inside a pre-existing space, information itself is vibrating, generating space and time as by-products of its motion.
The geometry isn’t the stage for vibration—it’s the echo of vibration.

This interpretation somehow keeps string theory’s mathematics (but of course with entropic corrections and reformulations) but gives it new philosophical meaning.
Where string theory asks how geometry shapes vibration, ToE asks how vibration of information shapes geometry. In ToE, information not only has geometry: The Theory of Entropicity ToE now demands that information itself (via entropy) also vibrates.

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5. Matter as Compactified Entropy

If this perspective is right, every particle we observe—electrons, quarks, even Higgs bosons—is a localized standing wave of the entropy field.
Their apparent “mass” and “charge” arise from how entropy folds and loops back on itself in compact regions of information space.
What we call massive matter is the densest, most compactified form of entropy;
what we call radiation is entropy in motion, propagating freely.

This aligns with a simple but powerful statement:

The universe’s solidity is an illusion created by the stability of invisible information patterns.

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6. Implications for Physics

1. A Deeper Foundation for the Standard Model
   The model’s particle fields could be emergent solutions of a single entropic equation, rather than separate fundamental entities.

2. A Bridge to Quantum Gravity
   If spacetime curvature is entropic curvature, then general relativity and quantum theory may already share a common informational base.

3. A New View on String Theory
   Strings and branes would represent geometrical projections of information vibrations.
   The extra “compact dimensions” of string theory might correspond to informational compactifications—dimensions of entropy rather than space.

4. The Arrow of Time Built In
   Because entropy flows irreversibly, ToE naturally incorporates time’s one-way direction into fundamental physics.

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7. Philosophical Consequences

This view turns the usual hierarchy upside down.
Instead of matter → energy → information → entropy, the order reverses:

\text{Entropy (information)} \;\Rightarrow\; 
\text{Energy and geometry} \;\Rightarrow\; 
\text{Matter and forces.}

Reality becomes a process of information crystallizing into the shapes we observe.
Physical existence is a visible language spoken by invisible data.

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8. Where Thought Meets Physics

None of this displaces the mathematical successes of string theory or the Standard Model.
Rather, it reframes them as phenomenological layers within a deeper informational universe.
If ToE’s premise holds, then the ultimate “theory of everything” would not describe how matter moves through space, but how information becomes matter by forming space.

That possibility is as humbling as it is thrilling.
It means that behind the universe’s tangible architecture lies something that can’t be touched or seen—only inferred:
a silent, self-organizing ocean of entropy whose vibrations create the music of reality.

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Author’s Note

This essay presents a conceptual interpretation inspired by recent work on information geometry and entropy-based field theories, particularly the Theory of Entropicity (ToE).

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