• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The entropy gradient and cosmic inflation were both ultimately caused by the big bang, sure… but in what sense is the expansion directly causing the entropy gradient?

    Also, cosmic inflation isn’t evenly distributed—it mostly happens in intergalactic space. Are you saying that time is progressing more rapidly in regions where space is expanding more quickly?

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      3 days ago

      By going from a state of higher density of energy/matter to a state of lesser density, it’s a gradient much like an electrical field.

      We know that time progresses at different rates due to gravitational effects, it follows that time would progress differently in more/less dense parts of the universe.

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        3 days ago

        Good deduction. You aren’t the first one who thought about that issue, but deducing it on your own is respectable.