Entropy, Energy Gradients, and The Anthropic Principle + The opposite-facing ceatures on the other side of the Big Bang

[Eckhart Aurelius Hughes]

Here is a subtle and interesting point about energy gradients, entropy, and where complexity emerges:

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxtzCyBbYTUC ... KkS2CXNVfc


The Anthropic Principle is also worth mentioning and very relevant.

Applied to entropy and statistical thermodynamics, the Anthropic Principle tells us that we will only find ourselves (i.e. complex life) in an uncommon mid-entropy state, as it flows from an even more uncommon and even more low entropy state to an even more common state. In other words, we will only find ourselves in the middle.

It would matter how vast the cosmos is, we would only find ourselves (i.e. complex life) in a very unusual part of it that happens to have the trait of being sandwiched between a long period of even lower entropy (i.e. even more unusual) and the more common entropic equilibrium.

To me that is a sufficient answer for the question in philosophy and physics of why the universe had such low entropy during the Big Bang. Presumably, the people and beings living on the other side of the Big Bang experience their arrow of time as going in the opposite direction as ours. Much like two people staring nose to nose will disagree about what's left vs right and front vs back, we and they both look back at the Big Bang only to find ourselves both looking toward each. When we both consider ourselves to be looking back, we are looking in opposite directions.

If we think of low entropy as a valley in the landscape, then we have to believe that we live on an unusually non-fat part of the landscape due to the Anthropic Principle. We have to find ourselves on a non-flat part of the mostly flat landscape, and we would be reasonable to conclude that there is also probably other compex life on the other side of the valley's lowest dip, but their perspective of which direction is up and away (the direction to which their arrow of time points) is opposite to ours.