I would have thought that that would be self-evident - in order for life to appear we would first need a stable universe, which implies that we would need enough order (i.e low entropy) to allow stars and planets to appear. Life on Earth has taken around 4.5 billion years to produce intelligent...
yes I think I got things a little bit confused there - corrected:
"But wouldn't it also be true that the only low entropy states that lasted long enough for intelligence to emerge would have to have something like the complexity of our own universe. So if we looked at a graph of entropy...
Aha, you may have a point there. But wouldn't it also be true that the only high entropy states that lasted long enough for intelligence to emerge would have to have something like the complexity of our own universe. So if we looked at a graph of entropy against time we would have immensely long...
An interesting post, but I think the Boltzmann Brain argument is a bit of a fudge. With enough time, it is perfectly possible that all sorts of odd low entropy states may occur (one is reminded of the Hitchhikers Guide Galaxy episode in which a whale suddenly appears in orbit around the planet)...
Hi all,
as a complete noob, I must first ask that people understand that I have only a layman's understanding of cosmology. However, after watching a few of Brian Cox's lectures on entropy and the heat death of the universe, I had a rather interesting thought (although as I am not a...