Tuesday, 7 January 2020

thermodynamics - How can it be that the beginning universe had a high temperature and a low entropy at the same time?


The Big Bang theory assumes that our universe started from a very/infinitely dense and extremely/infinitely hot state. But on the other side, it is often claimed that our universe must have been started in a state with very low or even zero entropy.


Now the third law of thermodynamic states that if the entropy of a system approaches a minimum, it's temperature approaches absolut zero.


So how can it be that the beginning universe had a high temperature and a low entropy at the same time? Wouldn't such a state be in contradiction to the third law of thermodynamics?




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