If entropy were reversible, would it really be any good?

>>8979764
Life arose out of a need for a subsystem to maintain internal order while existing in a system of ever-increasing disarray.

If you take away that stimulus, those subsystems have nothing to influence them towards increasing self-ordering (and complexity) in defiance of entropy.

>>8979764
What is that? Ruger 22/45? Thats what the CIA uses for ..... stuff...
Don't overthink it. You live in a clockwork cage designed for our benefit, probably?

>>8979778
Reminds of this other dude that was saying if you take away the "frontier" then humanity stops trying to improve itself.

>>8979792
Yeah it is. I've considered buying one for my first firearm since it seems pretty easy to maintain.

>>8979778
>>8979800
I more thought it would be physically impossible for life to arise. If everything just fucked off and held all its energy indefinitely, the circumstances for life wouldn't have occurred? Would the big bang have even happened?

>>8979764
What did you do to that poor 1911???

>>8979855
It's not a 1911 /k/ the name is in the picture.

>>8979800
Yup that's actually a recurring theme in science fiction going back to The Time Machine in which humans basically devolved into meek rabbit-like creatures because living became too easy over the ages

For real though how do we beat entropy?

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>>8979962
hire Max's demon.

>>8980354
IIRC didn't that only get BTFO because it was concluded the demon must be creating energy?

I wonder if it'd actually be possible to create a material or field that actually functions like the demon IRL.

>>8980354
>>8980617

Proof of inexistence of any physical maxwells demon is fucking elegant.
Its built on information theory and entropy.
In short, any measurement will need bit switches to be analyzed and the amount of bit switches is proportional to the theoretical energy gain of the measuremnt.
Phys Rev E paper on it is brilliant.

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>>8980617
Offshore demon to China then.

>>8979764
Entropy is "reversible", as long as the process is reversible, eg frictionless expansion or contraction of a closed volume of gas by a piston.
So what you're asking is "what if every process was reversible?", which is just really hard to imagine. Like another poster pointed out, you'd need a Maxwell's demon or some shit that could for example take a gas made out of 2 different compounds, and perfectly seperate the compounds into two different compartments, all without affecting other properties of the system.
It just doesn't werk, you'd live in an utterly bizarre world.

>>8979764
Entropy is our only real measurement of time. No entropy, no time, nothing happens never.

>>8980725
That's what I thought.

>>8980651
Sounds dank.

>>8980725
but is it really tho?

Time and entropy may flow in the same firection but entropy is not our measurement of time.

they are positively related concepts, but not interchangeable terms

>tfw can never escape entropy

>>8981406
The distinction between past and future is in the increase of entropy of a closed system. Entropy is the only physical quantity that will be asymmetric with time. Entropy defines the direction time moves.

>>8979764

It would just break the universe

>>8981422
>Entropy is the only physical quantity that will be asymmetric with time.
>What are CP violations
Stop talking out of your ass, you dumb cunt.

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>>8979764
>would it [what?]
>really be any good?
[citation needed]
Lrn2axe-a-question fgt pls

>>8981861
>CP violations
Explain?