[zmgsabst]

Well, there isn’t matter at that time — and your analogy to dice is exactly my point.

That instant could roll to anything from its current position (and according to many worlds, did) — the phase space of that object is huge, far beyond anything we normally see. That single object has all the complexity of every possible universe stacked into an infinitesimal region!

We’re in a colder universe than it was at that compacted moment, which I’m having trouble aligning with your explanation about crystals: we’re seeing the cooling towards absolute zero as a superheated droplet spreads out and freezes.

Defects forming in the crystallization of iron doesn’t imply the cold, defect laden iron has more entropy than the liquid drop it cooled from.