The Priority Question - I'm Not Going to Answer All the Questions, I Will Answer All the Questions

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Patreon supporters have once in their life the ability to ask a priority question, and I will answer it. Nicola: What is this gravitational entropy at the time of the Big Bang? It can't be the entropy of primordial black holes, since they also have very highEntropy. The correct, absolute thing to say about the early universe is that the entropy was low,. There's no sense in which the entropy was high.

Welcome to the February 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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