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Chaos vs. Quantum Mechanics: is the Big Bang beyond thermodynamic?
The big proposal of thermodynamics is the concept of entropy, where
disorder constantly increases as the universe ages. But is that true really? Everywhere I look, I see as much or more order happening as disorder happening. The first ordering was when baryons were created after the Big Bang. If the Big Bang were simply a standard explosion, then everything will have been random radiation. But the Big Bang was subject to all of the rules of quantum mechanics when it was still microscopic, which macroscopic explosions aren't, therefore macroscopic explosions are just thermodynamic and chaotic. The Strong and Weak nuclear forces would've also played a role in shaping the universe while it was still microscopic. Macroscopic explosions are mainly shaped by gravity and electromagnetism these days. I think the fact that we see order all around us, when thermodynamics predicts that we should see only disorder, is as a result of the subtle difference between quantum randomness and true randomness. So the fact that the galaxies formed into a web structure, could all come down to this constrained randomness of quantum mechanics vs. unconstrained randomness of chaos. Thermodynamics quite obviously comes from quantum mechanics at the macroscopic level. But Thermodynamics was created in the 1800's, before we knew about quantum mechanics, maybe Thermo is related to Quantum mechanics, as Relativity is related to Newtonian Mechanics. The older theory was just an approximation of the newer theory, which works at our scale. As such entropy is not as extreme as thermodynamics would make it out to be. Yousuf Khan |
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