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The emergence of structures and complexity in the expanding universe is related to the existence of sources of entropy and information (stocked entropy). The physical processes responsible for these phenomena are reviewed and situated in their chronological order.
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Reeves, H. (1988). Cosmic Information and the “Anthropic” Principle. In: Galeotti, P., Schramm, D.N. (eds) Gauge Theory and the Early Universe. NATO ASI Series, vol 248. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3059-9_7
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