LizR wrote:
On 13 November 2014 17:42, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Whatever the merits of that argument, it has little to do with the
maximum possible entropy. Rember, that occurs when all of the
mass/energy is in the form of black holes.
We're a long way from that situation. In order to explain the AOT as it
applies to the matter and energy that make up most of the universe, we
need to explain how it comes to be arranged as it does, in arrangements
that we are far from thermodynamic equilibrium. (And any situation that
raises the maximum entropy available for matter and energy in terms of
possible configurations is therefore relevant, regardless of whether it
affects the theoretical maximum involving black holes.)
If you have a maximum available of 10^100 units, adding or subtracting
10^50 units is totally irrelevant, in any sense of the term 'irrelevant'.
Matter is currently arranged as it is because of the laws of physics
acting on the initial conditions. Physics is not well equipped to deal
with initial conditions. All one can do is go to some earlier (hopefully
simpler) set of initial conditions and apply the laws from there.
Ultimate explanations are not really the business of science.
Bruce
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