Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Could you use entropy in informational cosmology as something akin to a universal clock? Rick Rosner: You can. In Big Bang cosmology, entropy can be interpreted as a clock. However, both Big Bang cosmology and the laws of thermodynamics may fundamentally misunderstand how entropy and thermodynamics behave on tiny scales and over …

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