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Originally Posted by GGG
Interesting, so in GR the force gravity can essentially work against entropy. In going from the least complex state essentially zero energy to a much more complex state the universe.
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Entropy and conservation of energy aren't the same thing, so no not really.
In terms of energy, GR just means the net energy of the universe is zero (or can be zero, as long as the universe is flat, as it appears to be to our best measurements so far), but doesn't really tell us how we get from zero to an inflationary universe filled with particles, I hope the book addresses that.
Relevant link:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/co...thropic-brain/
And remember entropy isn't a statement about complexity, it's a statement about the usable energy in a system, or a statement about the available and possible states of a system.
The early universe had a low entropy and has a high entropy now, even though the universe now is more "complex" than it was early on.
Here's some stuff of a book I've been reading on and off, haven't really finished yet and still working through, has stuff about entropy:
http://preposterousuniverse.com/eternitytohere/faq.html