You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.

...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.