When something starts of simple and then becomes more complex or chaotic with the passage of time, it's called

In My Humble Opinion
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Guys, please help me id this word. It’s driving me crazy.

Thread title is about the only clue I can give you. People will often use this word when they’re trying to sound smart as in:

"We live in a ____ universe’

Thanks

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I’ve seen folks use “stochastic” for that.

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Thanks for your input. That’s not it. It’s a more commonly used word.

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" ramifying" = “to spread or branch out; grow and develop in complexity or range.”

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Degenerate

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It’s more like a word you would hear one of the TV science guys use. I want to say it starts with an e but I’m not sure.

I’ll know it if I read it though.

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Something to do with “entropy”?

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Yes! That’s it!

Thank you so much.

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Yup, “entropy” is the answer to the question posed in the thread title. The blank in the OP can be filled with “entropic”, though I’d say that is much less commonly used, probably because it’s not usually phrased that way (IMHO).

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But entropy means things become less complex. Classically, a system in thermodynamic equilibrium (i.e., at maximum entropy) means that the temperature has become the same, everywhere.

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Entropy isn’t what it used to be.

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Entropy also means that things become less orderly, hence more chaotic.

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Be that as it may, I have never heard anyone say “We live in a[n] entropy [entropic?] universe.”

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How about “expanding”?

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“Government” :smiling_imp:

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Well, my vague recollection, it was Brian Green or NDT used entropic to explain the expending universe on one of his shows.

So maybe not so common but that’s what I associate it with.

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I have to say that “complex” and “chaotic” don’t belong together in physics. Simple to complex would be “evolving”, which is certainly different from “entropic”.

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How do you stop an expending Universe?

Take away it’s credit cards! :wink: I slay me.

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My tile job in front of our new gas fireplace has gone south with every attempt. I’m calling it a clusterfuck.

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Is OP referencing the fact that the universe started as energy, turned into into chemistry, then turned into biology, then turned into technological civilization, each one more complex than the last?

If so, entropic would mean the opposite.