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28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Importance of Entropy in the Early Universe

The entropy in the black holes is absolutely stupendous by comparison to anything else. So this is very good news for the second level of thermodynamics. It explains that the early universe had a low entropy, actually not a maximum entropy. But it's bad news for cosmology because we're stuck with this question of why the early universe is like that.

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