Accordingly, it is the potential for stars to form (albeit via somewhat complicated processes in appropriate regions in space), through the relentless entropy-raising process of gravitational clumping, from initial material that started off in a very uniform gravitationally low-entropy state. This all comes about, ultimately, from the fact that we have been presented with a Big Bang of a very special nature, the extreme (relative) lowness of its entropy being manifested in the fact that its gravitational degrees of freedom were indeed not initially activated. This is a curiously lop-sided
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