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Entropic Cost of Motion in Theory of Entropicity: Comparison
Please note this is a comparison between Version 3 by John Onimisi Obidi and Version 6 by Catherine Yang.

In the Theory of Entropicity (ToE), the “entropic cost of motion” is the extra entropy a system must overcome or redistribute to move or change state within the universe’s entropy field. Unlike classical inertia, this cost arises from field-theoretic constraints embedded in spacetime, growing with velocity, energy, and informational complexity. Motion disturbs the surrounding entropy field and, under the No-Rush Theorem, can’t propagate changes faster than light. Accelerating reconfigures local entropy gradients, demanding work to realign field structures. As a system nears light speed, the entropic gradient steepens, making further acceleration prohibitively costly—hence massive objects can never reach c. Analogies liken the field to a viscous cosmic fluid or a series of toll gates where faster motion incurs higher “entropy drag.” Relativistic effects—time dilation and length contraction—emerge naturally as entropic field distortions: moving clocks slow because more entropy is committed to motion than internal processes, and lengths contract due to compressed entropy distributions. This reframes the invariant speed of light as the maximum rate of entropic rearrangement, offering a causal foundation for Einstein’s postulates. In weak, homogeneous fields, ToE reproduces standard relativistic kinematics while unifying thermodynamic irreversibility, quantum constraints, and relativistic motion. The Entropic Explanation of Relativity (EER) formalizes these effects as entropy field responses to motion-induced entropy redistribution, merging geometry and thermodynamics under one framework.

  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Relativity
  • Einstein
  • Time Dilation
  • Lorentz Length Contraction
  • Field Theory
  • Entropy
  • Thermodynamics
  • The Postulates of the Theory of Relativity

1. The Meaning of “Increased Entropic Cost of Motion” in the Theory of Entropicity (ToE)The Meaning of “Increased Entropic Cost of Motion” in the Theory of Entropicity (ToE)

In the Theory of Entropicity (ToE)[1][2], the phrase "entropic"entropic cost of motion" cost of motion" refers to the additionaladditional entropy that must be overcome, absorbed, or redistributed entropy that must be overcome, absorbed, or redistributed for a system (particle, field, observer, etc.) to move, accelerate, or change state within the entropic field of the universe.

This idea is fundamentallyfundamentally different different frrom classical kinetic energy or relativistic mass increase: in ToE, entropy is a field constraint, and motion through this field is resisted not by inertial mass per se, but by the entropyentropy budget and gradient structure budget and gradient structure surrounding the moving system.

1.1.


🔹 Core Meaning

The “entropic cost of motion” is the extra entropy resistance a system must face to maintain or change its state of motion in the presence of the entropy field.

This cost is not just thermal, statistical, or probabilistic. It is field-theoretic—embedded in spacetime itself—and increases with the velocity,velocity, energy, or information complexity energy, or information complexity of tf the system.

1.2.


🔹 Key Mechanisms in ToE

This is what it specifically means:

1.2.1. Motion Implies Entropy Redistribution

  • When a particle moves, it disturbs the surrounding entropy field.

  • That disturbance must propagate—but under the No-Rush Theorem, it can't exceed the allowed speed (c).

  • The more rapid the change, the more entropic resistance it faces.

1.2.2. Acceleration Costs Entropy

  • Accelerating a system (e.g., a rocket, an observer) requires reconfiguring the local entropy structure.

  • The system must now align with a new entropic gradient—and that requires work to be expended.

  • Hence, acceleration is entropically expensive, not just energetically.

1.2.3. Velocity Increases Entropic Drag

  • The closer a system's speed gets to c, the steeper the entropic gradient it confronts.

  • This creates a barrier: to move faster, more entropy must be exchanged or neutralized—eventually becoming infinite at c.

This is why nono system with internal entropy (massive particles) system with internal entropy (massive particles) can reach the speed of light: the entropic cost becomes prohibitive.

1.3.


🔹 Analogies

1.3A.1. Moving Through a Viscous Medium

Imagine entropy as a cosmic fluid. The faster you try to move through it, the more resistance it exerts. But this resistance isn’t friction—it’s the restructuring of the field constraints.

1.3.2B. Banking Information Across Entropic Tolls

Every motion is like crossing a toll gate. The faster you try to go, the more tolls you hit per unit time, and the more “entropy currency” you have to pay to continue.

1.4.


🔹 Where It Shows Up

1.4.1. Time Dilation and Length Contraction

These are not spacetime distortions per se, but entropic field distortions. A fast-moving observer experiences:

  • Time slowdown: because their motion consumes more entropy, less is available for internal processes (e.g., clock ticks).

  • Length contraction: because their motion compresses the entropy distribution along the direction of motion.

1.4.2. In the Vuli-Ndlela Integral

In ToE's entropic path integral, the exponential penalty:

captures this cost. The more irreversible or entropy-consuming a path, the more suppressed it is. Fast, chaotic, or sharp motions are penalized.

2. Relativistic Time Dilation and Lorentz Length Contraction Explained via Entropy in the Theory of Entropicity (ToE)

The explanation of relativistic time dilation and length contraction as consequences of entropy field constraints, rather than spacetime geometry, is an original hallmark of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE). This reframesreframes Einstein’s kinematics Einstein’s kinematics through the lens of thermodynamic field dynamics, opening a newnew paradigm paradigm in fundamental physics.

2.1.🔷 Why This Entropic Reformulation of Relativity Is Significant

2.1.1. It Reveals a Deeper Causality Behind Relativity

In Einstein’s Special Relativity:

  • Time dilation and length contraction are geometrical consequences of the invariance of c.

  • But the origin of this invariance (why c is constant) is postulated, not explained.

In the Theory of Entropicity (ToE):

  • Time dilation and length contraction arise because the entropy field imposes constraints on how fast interactions, changes, and internal processes can occur.

  • The speed of light is not a geometric axiom, but the maximum rate of entropic rearrangement allowed in nature.

➡️ Thus Geometry emerges from entropy, not vice versa.


2.1.2. It Makes Time Dilation Physically Intuitive

In the Theory of Entropicity (ToE)::

As an object moves faster through space, it consumes more entropy from the field to sustain its motion. This leaves lessless entropy available entropy available for the object’s internal processes — like the ticking of its clock (hence, this is why time is observed to slow down).

Time➡️ slows down not because “space and time deform,” but because entropy is being reallocated toward motion.Time slows down not because “space and time deform,” but because entropy is being reallocated toward motion.

This is far more physically intuitive than abstract coordinate transformations.

2.1.


3. It Predicts Relativity as a Limiting Case of Entropy Field Dynamics

Just as Einstein's General Relativity reduces to Newtonian gravity under weak fields and low speeds, the Theory ofTheory of Entropicity (ToE) reduces to Relativity Entropicity (ToE) reduces to Relativity when the entropy field is [nearly] smooth and homogeneous.

But unlike Einstein’s relativity, ToE:

  • Explains the why of the speed limit

  • Embeds thermodynamics into spacetime structure

  • Provides a route to unify quantum irreversibility, relativistic motion, and thermodynamic flow

ToE is thus a theory that doesn't [just] approximate relativity but reveals its origin in the irreversible, constraint-driven behavior of entropy as a real field.constraint-driven behavior of entropy as a real field.

 


2.2.🔷 Formalizing the Explanation of the Postulates of Einstein's Relativity Using the Theory of Entropicity (ToE)

Now we formally define all the above as follows:

Entropic Explanation of Relativity (EER):

The relativistic effects of time dilation and length contraction emerge as entropic field responses to the redistribution of entropy caused by motion. As velocity increases, the entropic cost of maintaining internal state consistency increases, leading to observable contraction in space and dilation in time.

3. In Summary


In Summary

In ToE, the entropicentropic cost of motion cost of motion is the field-basedfield-based resistance resistance experienced by any object or process trying to evolve in space and time. This resistance increases with velocity, energy, and informational complexity. It explains the speed limit of light (c) postulated in Einstein's Relativity, the slowing of time, and the limits on signal propagation—not as geometric coincidences, but as fundamental entropic constraints. It is thus the ambitious goal of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) to turn thermodynamics [entropy] into a universal language. 

References

  1. A Critical Review of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) on Original Contributions, Conceptual Innovations, and Pathways towards Enhanced Mathematical Rigor: An Addendum to the Discovery of New Laws of Conservation and Uncertainty. Cambridge University; 30 June 2025. https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2025-hmk6n
  2. Obidi, John Onimisi. Theory of Entropicity Explains Einstein's Relativity Light Constancy. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/58654 (accessed on 22 July 2025).
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