Hi guys,
not to put too fine a point on it, I suspect I've probably gone wrong somewhere, but I'm a curious chimp and I'd love to know where...
It seems to me that if the Big Bang shoots out energy randomly in all directions, this energy will coalesce into particles that are also moving randomly in all directions, so it would be overwhelmingly probable that the universe would start out in a high entropy state and no (or very little) work could be done because everything would be the same temperature.
However, this is obviously not the case.
Since the Second Law of Thermodynamics is a mathematical law, not a physical law (it is based on statistics in statistical mechanics), I think it should apply to the Big Bang (and any "quantum foam" or whatnot that preceded it) as well as to everything else.
Also, I don't think the Anthropic Principle and infinite universes can be invoked to explain this, because there's much more free energy around than the minimum required for us to evolve.
Is there a well-accepted explanation? Or any theories? Or is it a mystery? Or have I made some laughably simple mistake?
thanks
IV
