It's probably helpful to think of this as phase transitions. At the plank scale "temperature" everything is mixed together, but when the system cools and underg

It's probably helpful to think of this as phase transitions. At the plank scale "temperature" everything is mixed together, but when the system cools and undergoes a phase transition we start seeing different behavior. Sounds possibly like an invalid analogy, but in fact there's substantial overlap in the theories. If you want to read more try reading wikipedia articles on "ising model", "spontaneous symmetry breaking", "higgs mechanism".