Understanding the World as Entropic - Part 1

This was a post that got kind of out of hand, so now it's a series. Here's Part 1 of 3 Intro to Thermodynamics These days, I'm noticing that many people - adult people with serious jobs who make important decisions controlling unthinkably vast sums of money, affecting nearly everyone in society, do not understand physics. I'm not referring to the formalised version of physics taught in classrooms,…