On 23 January 2014 12:53, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:

>  By having interacted in the (distant) past.  If the universe is a pure
> quantum state then it has zero entropy, which means that all the complexity
> and information we see is a local phenomena due to our being
> quasi-classical, i.e. we are effectively 'coarse graining' the world.  From
> this standpoint the positive information we see must be cancelled by
> correlations, negative information, which are ubiquitous.
>
> I see. So in theory the entire universe is full of entangled particle
pairs due to them having once upon a time all lived together in the Big
Bang (to misquote Italo Calvino). Wouldn't those entanglements quickly get
decohered by interaction with the environment, though?

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