I've been reading an unhealthy amount about entropy lately, and one of the best explanations of something that was confusing me is in Roger Penrose's new book, which doesn't shy away from the math.
One normally associates a high entropy thermodynamic state with randomly distributed matter within a system. The opposite is true for large bodies where gravitational forces mean that the highest entropy state is where matter aggregates e.g. in a black hole.
Except that the ultimate aggregation of matter, the big bang, must have had an extremely low entropy state, so I am still confused.
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