Comment Gravity:Entropy, Big Bang:Big Rip (Score 1) 650
I'm wondering, if Gravity is inversely related to Entropy, then would this explain the initial rapid expansion of the Universe, the settling out, and the relatively recent accelerated expansion of the Universe towards "Heat Death"?
Instants after the Big Bang, there would have been very little entropy, since the Universe was nearly uniform, with almost no differentiation between particles, forces, etc. With little entropy, everything tends to fly apart, quickly. Over a few hundred million years, the Universe becomes more complex, and gravity starts to take hold, slowing the acceleration outwards.
Yet, it had already reached a critical point of expansion where entropty was bound to continue to increase because of the great distances between everything. Thus, gravity weakens on a grand scale, and the expansion of the Universe begins to accelerate again. Would that be a testable (well, it's already observed, right?) prediction of this theory?
Or maybe I should read up on this more.