Inflation Explains Low‑Entropy Origin

The article argues that cosmic inflation — a brief period of exponential expansion in the very early universe — can convert a small, low‑entropy patch into the large, smooth, low‑entropy cosmos we observe, thereby removing the need to assume a special initial 'past hypothesis.' It links this cosmological mechanism to the thermodynamic arrow of time and explains why the early universe’s apparent order need not be a brute fact. — If inflation genuinely accounts for the universe’s low initial entropy, it changes philosophical and cultural narratives about fine‑tuning, the origin of time's arrow, and claims that the universe began in a mysterious, uniquely special state.