Gravitation and the Foundations of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE): Making Sense of It All

Entropy isn't typically a field like gravity in standard physics, but emerging theories treat it as one by linking it to spacetime geometry and quantum information. These ideas make conceptual sense by viewing gravity itself as arising from entropy gradients, resolving unification challenges.

Entropic Gravity Basics

Entropic gravity, proposed by Erik Verlinde, posits gravity as an emergent force from entropy changes, akin to how elasticity emerges from molecular disorder in rubber. Objects move to maximize entropy in a holographic screen of information bits on spacetime surfaces, mimicking Newton's law without fundamental gravitons.[3]

Bianconi's Quantum Entropy Theory

Ginestra Bianconi's recent work derives gravity from "quantum relative entropy," measuring disorder differences between quantum states of spacetime and matter. Spacetime acts as a quantum operator; entropy gradients couple matter fields to geometry, yielding Einstein's equations plus a small cosmological constant for cosmic expansion.[1][5][7]

Field-Like Formulation

The theory introduces a G-field (gravitational vector field with magnitude and direction) as a Lagrangian multiplier, optimizing wave functions amid entropy variations. This field influences spacetime like gravity does, emerging from quantum info dissimilarity—gravity isn't curvature alone but an entropic response, potentially explaining dark matter as particle-like G-field excitations.[1][7]

Physical Intuition

Counterintuitively, gravity increases total entropy (e.g., gas collapsing to a hot planet radiates photons, boosting disorder elsewhere) despite local clumping. Entropy as a field scalar (like a density) or via its gradient drives motion, much as the Higgs field endows mass—it's "physical" because it enforces the second law across quantum scales.[2][4]

Citations:

[1] A New Theory Says Gravity May Come From Entropy— ... https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64069299/gravity-entropy-unified-theory/

[2] Entropy vs gravity : r/AskPhysics https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1c7gefo/entropy_vs_gravity/

[3] Entropic gravity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity

[4] Is gravity the opposite of entropy? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/14wjp5s/is_gravity_the_opposite_of_entropy/

[5] Gravity from entropy: New theory bridging quantum mechanics ... https://www.firstprinciples.org/article/gravity-from-entropy-new-theory-bridging-quantum-mechanics-and-relativity

[6] Gravity is Entropy is Gravity is... http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2010/03/gravity-is-entropy-is-gravity-is.html

[7] A New Theory Says Gravity May Come From Entropy— ... https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70060000/gravity-from-entropy-unified-theory/

[8] What is "entropic gravity"? https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/what-is-entropic-gravity

[9] Gravity is not an entropic force https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269325008962

[10] What if gravity is caused by entropy? https://www.reddit.com/r/HypotheticalPhysics/comments/1j61xdn/what_if_gravity_is_caused_by_entropy/

Introductory Essays on the Theory of Entropicity (ToE): Comparison with Thermodynamics, Operability of the Obidi Action, and the Ontological Distance Between Entropy and Spacetime 

What Makes the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) Different from Thermodynamics?

For more than a century, entropy has been treated as a thermodynamic quantity, a statistical measure of disorder, or a bookkeeping tool for heat engines. In this traditional view, entropy is something that emerges from the microscopic behavior of particles. It is a consequence of heat flow, a descriptor of equilibrium, and a number that increases when systems become more disordered. Thermodynamics, in this sense, is descriptive rather than generative. It tells us how systems behave once we already know the underlying physics, but it does not explain why the universe exhibits irreversible change in the first place.

The Theory of Entropicity (ToE) challenges this hierarchy. Instead of treating entropy as a secondary quantity, ToE elevates it to the status of a fundamental field — a physical substrate that permeates the universe and governs the evolution of all systems. In this framework, entropy is not something that results from physical processes; it is the entity that determines what physical processes are possible. This shift is not merely philosophical. It is structural and ontological. It changes the role of entropy from a passive descriptor to an active generator of physical reality.

Thermodynamics cannot explain why time flows in one direction, why systems decay, why order requires effort, or why aging is universal. It cannot explain why measurement collapses in quantum mechanics or why the speed of light is finite. These limitations arise because thermodynamics treats entropy as a macroscopic artifact rather than a fundamental field. ToE, by contrast, treats entropy as the substrate from which time, motion, mass, gravity, and quantum behavior emerge. In this view, the irreversible flow of time is simply the flux of the entropic field. Gravity is the curvature of that field. Mass is the resistance of the field to reconfiguration. Motion is the field rearranging itself. Quantum probabilities are the entropic accessibility of different configurations. And the speed of light is the maximum rate at which the entropic field can update its state.

The difference between thermodynamics and ToE can be summarized in a single conceptual inversion. Thermodynamics says that entropy describes what happens. ToE says that entropy determines what can happen. That is the difference between a statistic and a field, between a descriptor and a law, between a shadow and the light source. The Theory of Entropicity is not an extension of thermodynamics; it is a re-foundation of physics built on entropy as the primary field of nature.

How the Obidi Action Works: A Non‑Technical Explanation

Every fundamental field in physics — from electromagnetism to gravity to quantum fields — is governed by an action. The action is a mathematical object that encodes the rules by which the field evolves. It determines which configurations of the field are allowed, which are stable, how the field changes over time, and how it interacts with matter and energy. In a sense, the action is the DNA of a field. It contains the instructions that generate the behavior we observe.

The Obidi Action plays this role for the entropic field in the Theory of Entropicity. It is the variational foundation that defines how entropy flows, curves, and interacts with everything else in the universe. Through the Obidi Action, the entropic field acquires structure, directionality, and dynamical behavior. It gains the ability to propagate, to resist motion, to generate time, to shape spacetime, and to enforce causality. From this action, the Obidi Field Equations (OFE) naturally emerge, just as Einstein’s field equations emerge from the Einstein–Hilbert action and Maxwell’s equations emerge from the electromagnetic action.

Without the Obidi Action, entropy would remain a number rather than a field. It would have no curvature, no propagation limit, no resistance, and no ability to generate geometry or unify physical laws. The action is what elevates entropy from a thermodynamic quantity to a fundamental physical entity. It is the mathematical structure that allows ToE to derive the speed of light, time dilation, length contraction, mass increase, quantum collapse times, entanglement formation, gravitational curvature, and even cosmological expansion — all from a single entropic principle.

A simple analogy helps clarify the role of the Obidi Action. Imagine the universe as a computer. The entropic field is the hardware. The Obidi Action is the operating system. The Obidi Field Equations are the system processes. And the phenomena we observe — spacetime, matter, motion, causality — are the applications running on top. Without the operating system, the hardware is inert. Without the action, the entropic field has no rules to follow and no way to generate the universe we experience.

The Obidi Action is therefore not an optional mathematical flourish. It is the core of the Theory of Entropicity. It is the structure that transforms entropy from a passive descriptor into the active generator of physical reality.

Why Entropy, Not Spacetime, Is the True Foundation of Physics

For more than a century, physics has treated spacetime as the fundamental arena of reality. Everything — matter, energy, fields — is assumed to exist within spacetime. But this assumption has always carried a hidden tension. Spacetime cannot explain why time flows in one direction, why entropy always increases, why quantum measurement collapses, why information cannot travel faster than light, why mass increases with velocity, or why the universe expands. Spacetime geometry describes these phenomena, but it does not explain them.

The Theory of Entropicity (ToE) proposes a different foundation. It argues that spacetime is not fundamental but emergent. The true substrate of reality is the entropic field. Spacetime is simply the macroscopic geometry of that field. Once entropy is recognized as the fundamental field, many of the mysteries of physics become natural consequences of its dynamics.

Time becomes the irreversible flux of the entropic field. The speed of light becomes the maximum rate at which the entropic field can update its state. Gravity becomes the gradient of entropic curvature. Mass becomes localized entropic resistance. Motion becomes the reconfiguration of the entropic field. Quantum collapse becomes entropic synchronization. And spacetime itself becomes the large-scale geometric expression of entropic structure.

This perspective transforms the universe from a static stage into a dynamic continuum. Reality is no longer a container in which events unfold; it is a process driven by the flow of entropy. Spacetime is not the foundation of physics but one of its emergent layers. When entropy is fundamental, the fragmentation of physics disappears. Relativity, quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics become different expressions of the same entropic substrate.

The deepest insight of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) is that spacetime does not generate entropy. Entropy generates spacetime. This inversion is what makes ToE possible. It is what allows the theory to unify the laws of physics under a single entropic principle. And it is what reveals the universe not as a collection of disconnected laws but as a coherent entropic continuum.

The Origin Story of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE): How a Simple Question Became a New Framework for Understanding Reality and the Foundations of Science and Modern Theoretical Physics 

For most of my life, I’ve been haunted by a deceptively simple question:  

Why does everything fall apart?

Not in the poetic sense — in the literal, physical sense.

Why do buildings crumble unless we maintain them?  

Why do machines wear down even when engineered with precision?  

Why do living organisms age and die despite extraordinary medical advances?  

Why does order require effort, while disorder seems to arise effortlessly?

These weren’t just curiosities to me. They felt like clues — hints that something deeper was at work beneath the surface of physics, biology, and chemistry. Something universal. Something that didn’t care whether it was acting on a star, a human body, a metal rod, or a galaxy.

And that “something” was always entropy.

But the more I thought about entropy, the more I realized that the traditional explanations didn’t go far enough. Entropy was treated as a statistical measure, a thermodynamic bookkeeping tool, a macroscopic artifact of microscopic randomness.

Yet the effects of entropy were too consistent, too directional, too universal to be dismissed as mere statistics.

Entropy behaved like a field.

And that realization changed everything.

The Moment the Puzzle Pieces Snapped Together

Entropy wasn’t just a number. It wasn’t just a measure of disorder. It wasn’t just a thermodynamic footnote.

1. Entropy was everywhere.  
2. Entropy acted on everything.  
3. Entropy shaped everything.

And it did so with the same kind of universality that gravity, electromagnetism, and quantum fields exhibit.

So I asked myself a question that, in hindsight, was the turning point:

What if entropy is not a consequence of physical processes — but the cause?

What if entropy is the substrate of reality, the field from which space, time, matter, motion, and causality emerge?

Once I allowed myself to take that question seriously, the rest unfolded with surprising clarity.

Why Things Decay: The Clue Hidden in Plain Sight

1. Everywhere in nature, order requires effort.  
2. Disorder (seemingly and apparently) requires none.
3. A house collapses unless maintained.  
4. A body ages unless repaired.  
5. A machine wears down unless serviced.  
6. A star burns out unless fueled.

This is not random.  

This is not accidental.  

This is not merely statistical.

This is the signature of a universal field that pushes all systems toward irreversible change.

Entropy wasn’t just describing this behavior — it was driving it.

And if entropy drives it, then entropy must have:

1. a structure  
2. a geometry  
3. a propagation speed  
4. a curvature  
5. a variational principle  
6. a set of governing equations  

In other words:  

entropy must be a field.

From Insight to Theory: The Birth of the Obidi Action

Once entropy is recognized as a field, physics demands the next step:

Every fundamental field has an action — a mathematical object that determines how the field evolves.

So I constructed the Obidi Action, the variational foundation of the entropic field. From this action, the Obidi Field Equations (OFE) naturally emerge — the governing equations of the entropic field.

These equations unify:

1. the irreversible flow of time  
2. the emergence of spacetime geometry  
3. the behavior of matter and motion  
4. the constraints of thermodynamics  
5. the probabilistic structure of quantum mechanics  

All of these become different expressions of the same underlying entropic dynamics.

The universe, in this view, is not a static geometric arena.  

It is a dynamic entropic continuum.

Why Aging, Decay, and Motion Suddenly Make Sense

Once entropy is treated as a field, many mysteries of nature become straightforward:

1. Aging becomes entropic field drift.  
2. Decay becomes entropic gradient relaxation.  
3. Motion becomes entropic reconfiguration.  
4. Mass becomes entropic resistance.  
5. Gravity becomes entropic curvature.  
6. Time becomes the irreversible flux of the entropic field.  
7. The speed of light becomes the maximum rate at which the entropic field can update its state.

These are not metaphors.  

They are consequences of the field equations.

Entropy is not the shadow of physical processes.  

Entropy is the light source.

Why the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) Had to Exist

Physics has long been split into incompatible domains:

1. General Relativity explains gravity and spacetime.  
2. Quantum Mechanics explains the microscopic world.  
3. Thermodynamics explains irreversibility.  

But these frameworks don’t talk to each other.  

They don’t share a common foundation.  

They don’t explain why time flows, why systems decay, or why measurement collapses.

Entropy, as a field, bridges all of them.

It provides:

1. the arrow of time  
2. the structure of spacetime  
3. the behavior of matter  
4. the limits of motion  
5. the nature of causality  
6. the emergence of quantum probabilities  

The Theory of Entropicity (ToE) wasn’t invented — it was discovered.  

It was the natural conclusion of following entropy to its logical end.

The Theory of Entropicity (ToE) Today

What began as a philosophical question — why does everything decay? — became a mathematical framework with:

1. the Obidi Action  
2. the Obidi Field Equations (OFE)  
3. the Entropic Resistance Principle (ERP)  
4. the No‑Rush Theorem  
5. the Entropic Lorentz Factor  
6. the Vuli–Ndlela Integral  

Each of these components emerged from the same core insight:  

1. entropy is the fundamental field of reality.
2. Everything else is its geometry.

A Final Reflection

The Theory of Entropicity (ToE) did not begin in a laboratory or a textbook.  

It began with a simple observation about the world:

1. Everything changes.  
2. Everything decays.  
3. Everything flows.

And that flow is not random — it is governed.

Once I recognized that entropy behaves like a field, the universe suddenly made sense in a new and unified way. The ToE is my attempt to articulate that insight with mathematical precision and conceptual clarity.

If this theory helps even one person see the universe with fresh eyes — not as a collection of disconnected laws, but as a coherent entropic continuum — then the work has already achieved its purpose.

The Emergence of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE): An Introductory Biographical Survey to a New Foundation of Physics and Reality

The Emergence of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE): An Introductory Biographical Survey of a New Foundation for Physics and Reality 

For as long as I have studied nature, one question has followed me with a kind of quiet persistence: Why does everything decay? Why do structures collapse unless effort is applied to maintain them? Why do living organisms age and die despite extraordinary advances in medicine? Why does order require work, while disorder arises effortlessly and universally?

These questions were not abstract curiosities for me. They were the first hints of a deeper pattern — a pattern that seemed to operate beneath the familiar laws of physics, beneath the mechanics of biology, beneath the chemistry of life. Everywhere I looked, I saw the same signature: a directional, irreversible tendency woven into the fabric of existence. It was not random. It was not accidental. It was not merely statistical. It behaved like something real — something with structure, consistency, and authority.

Over time, I came to understand that this universal tendency was not simply “entropy” in the thermodynamic sense, nor merely a measure of disorder in the statistical sense. What I was observing was something far more fundamental: a field‑like influence that permeates all systems, governs their evolution, and imposes constraints that no organism, machine, or star can escape.

This realization did not arrive all at once. It accumulated slowly, through years of reflection, study, and dissatisfaction with the fragmented explanations offered by existing theories. Thermodynamics could describe entropy, but not explain why it behaves with such universality. General Relativity could describe spacetime, but not why time itself flows irreversibly. Quantum mechanics could describe probabilities, but not why measurement collapses outcomes in finite time. Biology could describe aging, but not why it is inevitable.

The more I examined these domains, the more I saw that they were all shadows cast by a deeper, unifying principle. And that principle was entropy — not as a number, not as a statistic, but as a field.

Once this insight crystallized, the rest followed with a kind of inevitability. If entropy is a field, then it must have a variational structure. If it has a variational structure, then it must have an action. If it has an action, then it must have governing field equations. And if it has governing field equations, then the universe itself must be an emergent expression of those equations.

This is how the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) was born.

The Obidi Action emerged as the natural mathematical foundation — a variational principle that encodes the dynamics of the entropic field. From it, the Obidi Field Equations (OFE) arise, governing the evolution of entropy across the manifold and revealing how spacetime, matter, motion, and causality emerge as stable configurations of the entropic substrate.

In this framework, the universe is not a static geometric arena but a dynamic entropic continuum. Time is the irreversible flux of the entropic field. Gravity is the gradient of entropic curvature. Mass is localized entropic resistance. Motion is entropic reconfiguration. And the speed of light is the maximum rate at which the entropic field can update its state.

The Theory of Entropicity (ToE) did not begin as a mathematical exercise. It began as a philosophical necessity — a response to the undeniable fact that everything in nature obeys a universal law of irreversible change. Only later did it become clear that this law could be formalized, quantified, and unified into a coherent field theory.

This monograph is therefore the result of that journey. It is both a scientific proposal and a philosophical statement: that entropy is not a byproduct of physical processes, but the very substrate from which physical reality emerges. It is my attempt to articulate, with mathematical precision and conceptual clarity, the field that I believe underlies all existence.

If the ideas presented here succeed in offering even a partial unification of the disparate domains of physics, or in inspiring others to rethink the foundations of natural law, then this work will have achieved its purpose.

— John Onimisi Obidi

How the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) Emerged: The Insight Behind Declaring Entropy a Field

The path to declaring entropy as a fundamental field did not begin with abstract mathematics. It began with a simple but profound observation about nature: everything that exists, from living organisms to engineered systems to cosmic structures, is constantly negotiating with a universal tendency toward deterioration, dispersion, and irreversible change. This tendency is not random. It is patterned, directional, and astonishingly consistent across all scales of reality.

1. Why do physical systems fall apart unless energy is continuously supplied to maintain their structure?  
2. Why do biological organisms age and die despite extraordinary advances in medicine?  
3. Why do ordered states require effort to sustain, while disordered states arise spontaneously?

These questions point to something deeper than thermodynamic bookkeeping. They point to the existence of a physical field — a pervasive substrate that governs the evolution of all systems, living or non-living, with mathematical precision and universal reach.

This is the conceptual seed from which the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) was born.

Recognizing Entropy as a Universal Field

The traditional view treats entropy as a statistical measure of disorder, a derived quantity that describes how systems behave rather than something that exists in its own right. But this view fails to explain why entropy behaves with such consistency across radically different domains:

1. stars burn out  
2. metals corrode  
3. biological tissues degrade  
4. machines wear down  
5. information erodes  
6. time flows irreversibly  

These are not isolated phenomena. They are manifestations of a single, universal constraint.

My insight was that this constraint is not merely descriptive — it is ontological. Entropy is not a shadow cast by physical processes; it is the field that shapes them. It permeates everything, operates with its own internal logic, and imposes its own laws on all systems, regardless of scale or composition.

Once this is recognized, the next step becomes inevitable: entropy must be treated as a field in the same sense that physics treats electromagnetism or gravity as fields. It must have:

1. a mathematical structure  
2. a variational principle  
3. a curvature  
4. a propagation law  
5. a set of governing equations  

This realization is what led me to formulate the Obidi Action and the Obidi Field Equations (OFE) — the mathematical backbone of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE).

From Intuition to Formalism: The Birth of the Obidi Action

If entropy is a field, then it must evolve according to a principle of least action, just like every other fundamental field in physics. This is where the Obidi Action enters the picture. It encodes the dynamics of the entropic field, defining how entropy flows, how it curves, and how it interacts with matter, energy, and information.

From this action, the Obidi Field Equations (OFE) emerge as the governing equations of the entropic field. These equations unify:

1. the irreversible flow of time  
2. the emergence of spacetime geometry  
3. the behavior of matter and motion  
4. the constraints of thermodynamics  
5. the probabilistic structure of quantum mechanics  

All of these become different expressions of the same underlying entropic dynamics.

Why This Insight of ToE Is So Powerful

By recognizing entropy as a field, ToE has solved a problem that physics has struggled with for more than a century: the disconnect between reversible microscopic laws and irreversible macroscopic behavior. ToE has also thereby provided a physical explanation for aging, decay, and the universal tendency toward disorder — not as accidents of chemistry or biology, but as consequences of a deeper entropic substrate.

In this view:

1. Aging is entropic field drift.  
2. Decay is entropic gradient relaxation.  
3. Motion is entropic reconfiguration.  
4. Time is entropic flux.  
5. Gravity is entropic curvature.  
6. Mass is entropic resistance.  

Everything becomes unified under a single conceptual and mathematical framework.

The Theory of Entropicity (ToE) as a Natural Conclusion

My reasoning was not speculative; it was empirical, philosophical, and mathematical all at once. You observed that nature behaves as though a universal entropic field exists. I recognized that such a field must have laws. And I formalized those laws through the Obidi Action and the Obidi Field Equations (OFE).

This is how the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) was born — not from abstraction, but from a deep, intuitive recognition of how nature actually behaves.

Uniqueness of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE): New Concepts for a New Foundation of Physics and Reality of Nature

The Theory of Entropicity (ToE), developed by John Onimisi Obidi, is highly unique in that it proposes entropy is a fundamental, ontological "physical field" 

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 that creates, rather than results from, space, time, gravity, and quantum mechanics. Unlike other entropic theories that treat entropy as a statistical, emergent property, ToE posits it as the foundational, active, and causal mechanism of the universe. 

Key Aspects of Uniqueness:

• Ontological Shift: ToE treats entropy as a "real" substance-like field that shapes physical reality, rather than a mere statistical, descriptive tool for disorder.
• Single Axiom Structure: It proposes a single foundational axiom—that entropy is a universal field, 
  

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  , governing all physical phenomena—from which Einstein-Hilbert gravity, quantum mechanics, and informational geometry arise.
• Fundamental Dynamics: The theory introduces the "Obidi Action," embedding entropy directly into the variational structure of physical laws, making the universe's rules adaptive rather than eternally fixed.
• The "No-Rush" Theorem: It frames the universe as a self-consistent ledger with a finite computational speed, redefining physical constants as outcomes of an informational "refresh rate". 
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Roles and Applications of the Obidi Curvature Invariant (OCI) of ln 2 in the Theory of Entropicity (ToE)

In the Theory of Entropicity (ToE), developed by John Onimisi Obidi, **ln 2** appears as the **Obidi Curvature Invariant (OCI)**, which equals ln 2. This is a fundamental constant with several important roles:

## Key Meanings of the ln 2 Curvature Invariant:

1. **Minimal Entropic Quantum**: The discreteness of quantum phenomena is a direct consequence of the minimal distinguishable entropic fold, determined by this curvature threshold [Medium](https://medium.com/@jonimisiobidi/the-beauty-of-obidis-theory-of-entropicity-toe-the-universe-as-an-accounting-mechanism-with-7bfdc225832c) .

2. **Quantum Transition Threshold**: Quantum transitions occur when the entropic field crosses discrete curvature thresholds determined by the Obidi Curvature Invariant (OCI = ln 2) [Medium](https://medium.com/@jonimisiobidi/the-beauty-of-obidis-theory-of-entropicity-toe-the-universe-as-an-accounting-mechanism-with-7bfdc225832c) .

3. **Fundamental Information Unit**: In ToE, ln 2 becomes the minimal entropic step the universe can take while updating reality [Medium](https://medium.com/@jonimisiobidi/what-is-the-meaning-of-ln2-in-the-theory-of-entropicity-toe-fbe44aeafcb6) . It represents the smallest meaningful entropic update or rearrangement.

4. **Ontological Binary Distinction**: Rather than being merely informational, a binary distinction is ontological, and a system that can exist in two distinguishable entropic configurations has a fundamental entropic separation of ln 2 [Medium](https://medium.com/@jonimisiobidi/what-is-the-meaning-of-ln2-in-the-theory-of-entropicity-toe-fbe44aeafcb6) .

5. **Landauer's Principle Connection**: The value originates from Landauer's principle, which states that the minimum amount of energy dissipated as heat when one bit of information is irreversibly erased is kT ln(2) [Medium](https://medium.com/@jonimisiobidi/what-is-the-meaning-of-ln2-in-the-theory-of-entropicity-toe-fbe44aeafcb6) .

In essence, the ln 2 Curvature Invariant in ToE represents the fundamental quantum of entropic change - the smallest discrete step by which reality can reorganize itself at the most basic level. It's worth noting that ToE is a radical framework still under rigorous development.