Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

by Brian Greene

For now, the lesson is simply that low-entropy configurations should be viewed as a diagnostic, a clue that powerful organizing influences may be responsible for the order we’ve encountered.

if a physical system is not already in the highest-entropy state available, it is overwhelmingly likely that it will evolve toward it.

But much as stretching a piece of spandex reveals the intricate pattern of its stitches, stretching space through a burst of inflationary expansion reveals quantum features usually cordoned off in the microworld.

Life is physics orchestrated.