ENTROPY. The Blind Spot Encyclopedia, #1

You place a cup of coffee on the table. It cools. This ordinary event is the most visible proof of a terrifying law that governs stars, bodies, empires, and memories. This law is called entropy. From the steam engines of the Industrial Revolution to the heat death of the universe, this book traces the history and profound implications of the second law of thermodynamics. You'll meet the brilliant and tormented scientists who uncovered it: Rudolf Clausius, the discreet German physicist who first formulated the law; Ludwig Boltzmann, the tormented Austrian who explained it through atoms and probability; and Erwin Schrödinger, who asked how life itself resists the universal tide of disorder.
But this is not just a book about physics. It is a philosophical journey that connects the ancient wisdom of Heraclitus-"everything flows"-to the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger and his concept of being-towards-death. It confronts the unsettling question posed by C. P. Snow and economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen: why has society failed to integrate this fundamental law, leading to a form of intellectual sabotage and programmed stupefaction?The book explores entropy in your body, in your relationships, in the stars above, and in the digital noise that surrounds you.
It reveals why time flows in only one direction, why you age, and why every act of creation is a temporary victory against chaos. This is a book for anyone who has ever wondered why things fall apart-and what that means for how we should live.