Some questions arise not from idle curiosity but from direct encounter with reality at its most unflinching. When mortality moves from abstraction to experience — when love, loss, and fragility become lived rather than theoretical — surface explanations begin to fall short. The search for deeper structure becomes less about intellectual ambition and more about coherence: What is time, if it can dissolve entire worlds without warning? What is existence, if it can hold both profound connection and devastating loss without pause? The work on entropy, distinguishability, and the underlying substrate of reality grew not from a desire to speculate, but from a need to find a framework sturdy enough to hold what life actually demands. In that sense, the physics is not a retreat from loss — it is an effort to understand the kind of universe in which loss is possible at all.
