irrelevance
noun
- quantity in information theory
Wiktionary
noun
- Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.
“It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.”