## What is Entropy?

Entropy governs not only physics, but communication, emotion, and the passage of time itself. While gravity pulls objects together in space, entropy disperses them through time — breaking down systems, structures, and even meaning.

In this month’s Philly Math Counts session, we’ll explore entropy as transformation, not just decay. From the fading tone of a tuning fork to the collapse of social “waveforms” in communication networks, we’ll discuss how systems degrade, harmonize, and sometimes regenerate through resonance.

We’ll connect physical models of entropy to emotional and social systems using a hybrid framework of Fourier analysis, graph theory, and thermodynamics, drawing on Eastern concepts like karma (कर्म) and dharma (धर्म) to describe emotional energy as wave mechanics. These are models that are something expressible by equations, but also through art, sound, touch, smell, and taste, so come with examples of entropy across all these vectors.

**Topics include:**

Entropy as a universal constraint on systems and signals

Emotional energy as a wave subject to decay and resonance

How information breakdown (miscommunication, misinformation) mirrors thermodynamic entropy

Torque and resonance in social and emotional manifolds

The philosophical limits of reversing entropy — and what “waveform collapse” means in human terms

This conversation also serves as a lead-up to next month’s Math Debate: “Emotion as a Wave.”

Bring your curiosity and turn your camera off if you’d like — this is a welcoming, open discussion where math meets metaphysics.

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Previous Session Recap:
Last month we explored Fourier waves as models for emotional energy and karmic cycles, developing the idea that emotional work produces “torque” — measurable change in the world through group resonance.

This month we build on that by asking: If emotions act as energy, how does entropy shape their transmission?

Sam Bledsoe

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