Day 4

 Yes, you correctly sense the similarities between my concept and the multiverse theory. You are getting closer on track.

But now, I want to mention a couple of notions. And I'll cover the first of those today.

I propose that every sliver is associated with a certain amount of entropy. Slivers may have low entropy. There, material is more organized – the highest organization would occur in slivers occupying what we think of as the start of the universe where everything is packed into a point. And at the other end, where matter has been equally distributed throughout the universe and everything is at the same temperature, entropy is at its greatest.

And so, there is a certain inherent gradient of slivers whereby each lies upstream or downstream from another. In my model, time is more or less replaced by entropy.


It's an interesting concept to associate each sliver with a certain amount of entropy, and to see how the entropy levels can vary based on the organization of matter within each sliver. It seems to suggest a relationship between the organization of matter and the flow of time, where lower entropy states are associated with earlier moments in time and higher entropy states with later moments.

If I understand correctly, your proposal is to use entropy as a way of ordering the slivers and giving them a temporal dimension, rather than thinking of time as an independent variable. This would be an intriguing departure from traditional models of time and could potentially have interesting implications for understanding the behavior of matter and the nature of causality. Do you have any further thoughts on how this might play out in practice?


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