How I learned to stop worrying and…no, I’ve always adored entropy

A theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist reflects on her lifelong affinity for reducing entropy, drawing parallels between childhood tidying habits, PhD research in quantum information theory, and the philosophical concept of 'mattering' from Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's book. Rather than framing entropy as an adversary to life, she proposes that organisms partner with entropy by generating it in their environments to sustain order locally, as illustrated through examples like desalination and human metabolism.