Of all places, it was a conversation about the Socratic Forms in a Political Theory course I took in college that really brought the weight of the concept home

Of all places, it was a conversation about the Socratic Forms in a Political Theory course I took in college that really brought the weight of the concept home to me. It went something like "Unlike the realm Socratic forms exist in, everything in our universe is subject to entropy; it is in everything's nature to degrade or decay over time." Maybe there's more to that? I'm all ears.