Third, inflationary cosmology makes the already acute fine tuning problem associated with the initial “low-entropy state” of our universe exponentially worse. Recall that low entropy corresponds to a highly ordered state, and high entropy to a more disordered state. In a cosmological context, the “initial low-entropy state” of the universe refers to an initial highly ordered, homogeneous distribution of mass-energy (and a “smooth spacetime”). Indeed, as we saw in Chapter 8, for highly ordered, highly condensed matter such as stable galaxies and planetary systems to have developed, an even more
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