A software architect builds small deterministic machines to test what quantum mechanics, entropy and time could be made of — every claim counted from code you can run.https://questforentropy.com/enhttps://questforentropy.com/p/spooky-action-on-the-ledgerhttps://questforentropy.com/p/spooky-action-on-the-ledgerTwo particles, far apart, agree on an answer neither was carrying. On the ledger it is neither spooky nor action.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/no-waves-no-spacetimehttps://questforentropy.com/p/no-waves-no-spacetimeIn a toy universe, spacetime is something that happens to waves — gravity as a crowd, time as a budget, and at the bottom of the crowd a black hole with no singularity.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-poor-cat-experimentshttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-poor-cat-experimentsSchrödinger's cat and Wigner's friend, demystified with a programming construct every developer uses daily.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-iceberg-modelhttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-iceberg-modelWhat if the quantum weirdness is just what a big distributed system looks like from the inside?Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/what-time-ishttps://questforentropy.com/p/what-time-isTime is not a thing that flows. It's a comparison — and the structure a comparison needs turns out to be the one my own industry invented for itself.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-observer-that-had-to-touchhttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-observer-that-had-to-touchI spent this whole quest watching my machines. Then I understood that watching can never work.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-almost-crystalhttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-almost-crystalThe most beautiful in-between thing in physics auditioned for two jobs in my toy universe — and failed both, for the same reason. It cannot hide.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-fluid-in-the-wave-functionhttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-fluid-in-the-wave-functionUnzip the imaginary number and the wave function turns into a flowing liquid. I spent a long time trying to make that liquid real.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-crypto-bethttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-crypto-betI went shopping for randomness in the one industry that manufactures it — and came home with a very good music box.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-lattice-that-was-too-perfecthttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-lattice-that-was-too-perfectI played with lattices — thousands of coupled pendulums — to see if they could build real waves and a real particle on their own. This is how far they went, and where they stopped.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-droplet-that-walkshttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-droplet-that-walksI tried to build a probability wave and failed. So this time I went looking for one that already exists — a droplet of oil that bounces on a vibrating bath and builds its own wave, one splash at a time. Then I sat it down for a quantum exam.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/building-a-wavehttps://questforentropy.com/p/building-a-waveI wanted a probability cloud that spreads into a shape and then stops — and oscillates. I built six worlds to find one. Here is exactly how each of them failed.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/i-never-understood-entropyhttps://questforentropy.com/p/i-never-understood-entropyI built a billiard table with sixteen balls and no friction, to find out what entropy actually is.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-machine-takes-a-quantum-examhttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-machine-takes-a-quantum-examTwenty questions, one deterministic clockwork, and the two answers it could not give.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-machinehttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-machineHow a clockwork with no dice fakes quantum mechanics — the machine taken apart, the exam it passed, and the one wall it cannot get past.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteikahttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-universe-with-no-dicehttps://questforentropy.com/p/the-universe-with-no-diceA software architect builds a fully deterministic clockwork that reproduces the Born rule and double-slit stripes to within one percent - then publishes the exact way it fails.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarijus Masteika