Sci-Fi Tech What's the escape velocity of the second law of thermodynamics?

King Krávoka

An infection of Your universe.
It came to me in a dream to build a pocket space where a ship would be running in circles while accelerating enough to witness an entropy decrease in a reasonable amount of subjective time. How much mass would we need to annihilate for moving a reasonably unreasonable megastructure to this speed?
 
To be honest, could you please lay out the theory and the proposal in a bit more detail with discrete elements? I am trying to mentally grapple with it.
 
To be honest, could you please lay out the theory and the proposal in a bit more detail with discrete elements? I am trying to mentally grapple with it.
Let's start with our universe, and a nice little piece of hyperspace to move into. The latter is a perfectly closed system from our universe once we're going.
So we take a structure...let's be conservative and say the mass of a gas giant...and start accelerating it. Given enough energy, it should eventually have a low enough tau to start going watching the universe's life pass by at a breakquark pace. Then, giving enough wait, the people inside that structure will have a new universe all quantum-fluctuated up for them.
Of course, the real hard part of this would be getting a good braking system for when that universe is available. At this point we're talking about concepts so advanced that the people who figure it out are going to cringe at my sufficiently huge lever crap.
The best way for this to work is to have something that gives our existence away to an outside observer, then have some kind of trigger on opening us up that causes the object to radiate all this cataclysmic energy back into the universe.
So that's got a good spot on my bottom 100 least realistic ideas.

A hypothetical alternative that cuts down some of the ambition by a few exponents is to just have a ramjet that runs off of particles released by decreases in background entropy, hydrogen, alpha particles, that sort of thing, while running inside a dead universe. I know that this one is also still too expensive.
 
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Basic problem here is that accelerating your hardware to the sort of speeds you are asking for will generate more entropy than you are reducing in the process.
Which is quite normal really. A lower state of entropy can be created in one area, at the cost of much more total entropy in the universe in general.
Living things do this all the time.
 

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