Why I Took the Decisive Entropic Leap in my Creation of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE): Historical and Philosophical Encounters in the Foundations of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE)

Why I Took the Entropic Leap: The Deep Historical Signals That Led Me to Declare Entropy the Universal Field of Nature

There is a moment in every major scientific breakthrough when a pattern becomes impossible to ignore. The signs hover in the background for decades, and sometimes even centuries, scattered across different fields, whispered by different thinkers, yet the full picture remains invisible until someone steps back far enough to see how all the threads connect.

My decision to elevate entropy to the status of a fundamental field did not arise from a vacuum. It grew from very specific intellectual signals (both historical and philosophical) — signals that, once integrated, became impossible to dismiss.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

What follows is the foundational story and account of those signals as I encountered them, and why they forced, or compelled and lead, me to take the decisive step that the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) represents today — that singular step that no one before me dared to take.

1. The Long Shadow of Bekenstein and Hawking

The first signal came from the extraordinary work of Jacob Bekenstein and Stephen Hawking (to whom I render my deep gratitude), who revealed that gravity and entropy are far more deeply connected than anyone previously imagined.

Black holes — the purest gravitational objects in the universe — turned out to be maximally entropic according to the groundbreaking works of Bekenstein and Hawking.

Their (black hole) surface areas, not volumes, encoded information.

Their temperature and radiation spectrum flowed directly from entropy.

To me, John Onimisi Obidi, this was not a statistical curiosity.

This was a flashing red light.

When the most extreme gravitational systems behave thermodynamically, the universe is telling us that entropy is not merely a statistical footnote.

It is woven into the very geometry of spacetime.

The universe was whispering: Look here. Entropy is not what you think it is.

2. The Cascade of Later Attempts Linking Gravity and Entropy

After Bekenstein and Hawking, many thinkers tried to build theories where entropy played a deeper role in gravitational phenomena:

1. Jacobson showed Einstein’s equations can be derived from thermodynamic relations.
2. Padmanabhan showed that spacetime dynamics look like emergent thermodynamics.
3. Verlinde proposed that gravity behaves like an entropic force.
4. Bianconi argued that gravity is entropy on probability manifolds.

One by one, these works tried to inch entropy closer to gravity.

And yet, every one of these theories hesitated at the same boundary.

They connected gravity → entropy,

but none dared to propose entropy → gravity → everything.

The direction of causality was always the same: entropy was an outcome, never the cause.

But if every road leads to entropy, and if every gravitational system exposes entropy as its inner architecture, what does this suggest?

To me, the implication was overwhelming:

1. Entropy is not secondary.
2. Entropy is primary.

Gravity is not upstream of entropy — it is downstream from it.

3. Einstein’s Mysterious Statement About Entropy

A deeper influence came from a remark widely attributed to Albert Einstein.

He once stated — in various wordings across his writings (and in a book I read on thermodynamics in my undergraduate years, written by a Russian author) — that:

Among all the laws of Nature, it appears to me that the second law of thermodynamics (the law of Entropy) is the only law that shall never be overthrown.

The meaning of this statement is profound, almost prophetic.

Einstein, who revolutionized our understanding of space, time, energy, and mass, pointed to entropy as the one principle that stands above all others.

• Not relativity.
• Not the constancy of the speed of light.
• Not the metric.
• Not the conservation laws.

But Entropy.

Why would Einstein — who was not a thermodynamicist — make such a remark?

My interpretation was that he sensed something deeper.

He (Einstein) understood that entropy’s irreversible character was more primitive than anything else in physics.

While geometry can change, equations can be reformulated, and fields can be quantized, the arrow of entropy stands unchallenged.

This remark was not merely philosophical.

To me, it felt like Einstein had touched a hidden thread, one he did not live long enough to follow to its conclusion.

I, John Onimisi Obidi, have felt obligated to follow it (to go in the direction of Albert Einstein).

4. A Growing Realization: Something Strange Is Happening Around Entropy

When I put all these signals together:

1. black holes behaving like thermodynamic objects,
2. spacetime dynamics emerging from entropy,
3. gravity resembling an entropic gradient force,
4. Einstein elevating entropy above all physical laws,
5. every attempt at quantum gravity accidentally stumbling into entropy,
6. every information-theoretic approach rediscovering entropy at its core,
7. and every holographic model encoding reality in entropic surfaces,

a new pattern emerged. A pattern too strong to be coincidence.

• Entropy was appearing everywhere. Everywhere.
• Like a gravitational pull on the development of physics itself.

But if entropy keeps reappearing in every framework, what does that mean?

• Is entropy trying to tell us something?
• Is the universe hiding its foundational principle in plain sight?
• Is entropy not a statistical summary — but the underlying fabric?

This is where my decisive leap occurred.

5. Hence, my Conclusion: Entropy Must Be the Universal Field of Nature

• If gravity bends toward entropy,
• if quantum systems collapse toward entropy,
• if information theory flows toward entropy,
• if cosmology evolves through entropy,
• and if black holes are built out of entropy,

then the simplest possible conclusion is also the boldest:

Entropy is the universal field of nature.

• It is not emergent.
• It is not derivative.
• It is not a consequence.

It is the cause.

• Entropy creates curvature.
• Entropy flows create forces.
• Entropy constraints create quantum behaviour.
• Entropy’s irreversibility creates time.
• Entropy’s reorganizing capacity creates motion.
• Everything that physics has treated as fundamental is better understood as a manifestation of entropy.

This is the leap. This is the moment the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) emerges.

Conclusion: The Universe Was Signalling. I Chose to Listen.

I did not take this step merely because it was bold or unconventional.

I took it because the evidence — scattered, fragmented, yet persistent — pointed in one unmistakable direction.

Physicists have spent a century trying to make entropy fit inside geometry, probability, or thermodynamics.

But what if entropy is not inside anything?

What if entropy is the thing?

After decades of clues, from black holes to cosmology to quantum information, the message was impossible to ignore:

• Entropy is the one principle that stands everywhere and behind everything.
• It is the law that cannot be overthrown because it is the law from which all others arise.

That is why I took the entropic leap.

That is why the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) exists today.

And that is why entropy now stands where it always belonged — at the throne of physics, not its periphery.

This is only an introductory part of my story and account — on the historical and philosophical foundations of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE).

…To be continued.

References

1. Obidi, J. O. (November 2025). On the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) and Ginestra Bianconi’s Gravity from Entropy: A Rigorous Derivation of Bianconi’s Results from the Entropic Obidi Actions of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE). Cambridge University. https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2025-g7ztq
2. Obidi, John Onimisi (12 Nov. 2025). On the Theory of Entropicity (ToE) and Ginestra Bianconi’s Gravity from Entropy: A Rigorous Derivation of Bianconi’s Results from the Entropic Obidi Actions of the Theory of Entropicity (ToE). Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30596129.v2
3. Obidi, John Onimisi (15 November 2025). The Theory of Entropicity (ToE) Goes Beyond Holographic Pseudo-Entropy: From Boundary Diagnostics to a Universal Entropic Field Theory. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30627200.v1

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