The Role of Thresholds in the Universe

Every time the universe comes up with something interesting, entropy says, I'll smash you. This is the second law of thermodynamics. So how do we get from that simple early universe to today? It's like watching a baby being born and asking where did this come from? The general answer is that things that already existed were suddenly rearranged in new ways so that they had new qualities that had never existed before. That's what thresholds are. They build complexity builds on complexity.