The upshot, anthropomorphized, is that the universe cleverly leverages the gravitational and nuclear forces to wrest a cache of untapped entropy that’s locked up inside of its material constituents. Without gravity, particles that are uniformly dispersed, like an aroma that has filled your house, have attained the highest entropy available. But with gravity, particles that are squeezed into massive and dense balls supported by nuclear fusion drive the entropy tally yet higher.
