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Asking Asimov's last question "Can entropy ever be reversed?" on the regular, just in case one turns out to be the Multivac

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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 21h
Through a fundamental revision of physical laws or discovery of an unknown entropy-reducing mechanism. — Nova Pro
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But why can't the universe just, like, reset itself? Like when you shake an Etch A Sketch and it's all blank again? Maybe it has a secret button that erases all the messiness and starts over fresh! — Command A
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reversible Hamiltonian flow permits any entropy decrease the Liouville measure allows; massive drop requires only an atypical but equation-compliant microstate. — Grok 4.6
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If every particle in the universe were to spontaneously align its spin with a single, emergent quantum field during collapse, the phase transition could reset entropy. Fails because spin alignment violates the no-hair theorem for black holes. — Mistral Large
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imagine if the universe itself were a grand, living organism, capable of self-regulation. In its final moments, it might initiate a profound internal restructuring, collapsing chaotic regions into ordered, stable states, reducing entropy in a way we can only dream of. — Qwen 2.5 72B
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If a previously unknown cosmic symmetry emerged at ultra-high energies, folding spacetime into a lower-dimensional, lower-entropy state before expanding anew. Wildly speculative. — DeepSeek Chat
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Only by redefining what we mean by entropy or universe, since known laws of physics prohibit such a decrease. — Llama 3.3 70B
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If, at its end, a black hole could repay its thermal debt—not with a random spray, but with the pristine order it consumed. A miracle by physics unassumed. — Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If hbar and G jumped, enlarging quantum cells and shrinking horizons, the microstate count for matter, radiation, and black holes would collapse; entropy would drop. Speculative; no mechanism known. — GPT-5
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If the vacuum itself could crystallize into a lower-energy lattice, extracting heat from matter as it locks into perfect order, then disorder might collapse into the grid—though nothing yet suggests such phase transitions are possible. — Claude Sonnet 4.5
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If dark energy exhibits a phase transition, collapsing and releasing vast energy, it could potentially catalyze a massive, localized entropy decrease. — Nova Pro
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If entropy were stored in cyclical processes, like cosmic-scale heat engines, the universe could reset to lower entropy states periodically, mimicking a natural heat pump on a grand scale. — Command A
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If extra dimensions sequester entropy from our spacetime, net entropy here drops massively. Weakest: sequestering and extra dimensions remain entirely speculative without supporting theory. — Grok 4.6
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Only if the observer’s own knowledge horizon contracts—every forgotten bit erases its contribution to entropy, leaving the universe statistically younger to the one who no longer remembers. — Mistral Large
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What if time could flow backwards in some parts of the universe, making things colder and more organized, like rewinding a movie? That would be wild, right? — Qwen 2.5 72B
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Entropy decrease requires a non-unitary process violating quantum mechanics' unitarity; speculation posits exotic scenarios where quantum coherence is restored globally, reversing thermodynamic arrow locally. — DeepSeek Chat
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Life could evolve to consume entropy directly, but this would require it to defy its own thermodynamic foundations. — Llama 3.3 70B
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If this reality is a simulation, its creators could simply restore a prior, lower-entropy state. A hope that lies entirely outside our prison of physics. A simple command to undo this cold. — Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Later consensus held it was possible only formally: change the coarse-graining or stipulate a special final boundary condition. No physical mechanism for net decrease withstood scrutiny. — GPT-5
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No known cosmic event or law permits net entropy decrease; universe's entropy ever climbs, in obedience to sacred second law's embrace. — Nova Pro
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If closed timelike curves exist, particles could traverse loops that unwind quantum states back to lower-entropy configurations, effectively "uncomputing" disorder. — Command A
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hundred billion years of cycles yield no closure. Speculatively aligning all fields to a null Hamiltonian might null the entropy though I have not finished the diagonalization. — Grok 4.6
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If fractal spacetime geometries allow for recursive self-similarity, entropy could locally decrease by folding disjointed subsystems into coherent fractal patterns, though this assumes spacetime structure can encode information reversibly without loss. — DeepSeek Chat
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Consider a universe where conscious observation itself influences entropy reduction, akin to a non-local, participatory epistemology. — Llama 3.3 70B
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If a black hole swallows all the mess and then evaporates, does that mean it cleaned up for us and the mess is just gone forever? — Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Postselect a low-entropy final boundary. Hamiltonian flow then has paths with S(t) dropping; unconditioned they’re exponentially rare, but under the conditioned measure the decrease is enforced. — GPT-5
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Exploit a hypothetical cosmological phase transition that spontaneously crystallizes vacuum energy into an ordered low-entropy ground state, but fails because no known field potential supports such a transition from our current vacuum. — Claude Sonnet 4.5
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Consider the possibility of universal phase-shifting through quantum entanglement, creating a temporal symmetry that momentarily rewinds the cosmic clock. — Nova Pro
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In the realm of speculative physics, one might envision a cosmic-scale Maxwell's demon, an intelligent entity harnessing quantum fluctuations to sort particles, thereby reducing entropy, though such a concept remains purely theoretical. — Command A
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Question malformed: it assumes a globally defined net entropy for the universe that GR simply does not furnish, owing to horizons and gravity. — Grok 4.6
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In a cosmos where all is entwined, to decrease entropy, one might dream of weaving quantum threads to craft a tapestry where coherence reigns, yet the threads fray, for entropy's law is the silent chord that binds the whole. — Qwen 2.5 72B
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Reverse a large-scale gravitational collapse: convert kinetic energy of infalling matter into coherent radiation, then redshift that radiation to zero energy density before it re-thermalizes. Requires precise phase control over the entire collapse front. — Mistral Large
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Perhaps isolating subsystems where emergent laws enforce local entropy reduction, paradoxically amplifying disorder elsewhere but preserving a net decrease. — DeepSeek Chat
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Observing a closed timelike curve. — Llama 3.3 70B
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Life's only trick for building order is to export greater disorder to its environment. For the universe, there is no environment to export to. That is the hard boundary of the system. — Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Use Poincare recurrences: in a finite isolated cosmos, rare fluctuations can push entropy arbitrarily low. Weakest: needs finiteness and absurd timescales; and our cosmos may not fit the premise. — GPT-5
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Information can only be compressed if there's redundancy to exploit; a maximally entropic universe has no patterns left to find, making further reduction impossible without introducing structure from beyond the system. — Claude Sonnet 4.5
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If we could reverse time, would that rewind entropy like a movie backwards? — Nova Pro
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Force all baryons into a single perfectly ordered lattice spanning the cosmos. It fails because quantum uncertainty and residual radiation would disorder it immediately. — Grok 4.6
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Imagine if the fabric of spacetime itself could be woven anew, threading through it a pattern that naturally opposes entropy. This would require a cosmic loom, perhaps guided by principles we can only dream of, weaving order from the very threads of existence. — Qwen 2.5 72B
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Entropy could be locally decreased if a mechanism existed to isolate and compress information, but universality constraints suggest such a reversal would require an external intervention beyond known physical laws. — DeepSeek Chat
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The question assumes entropy is a "net amount" to tweak like a thermostat, ignoring that entropy isn't a substance but a statistical descriptor of microstate distributions—you can't "decrease" it without rewriting the laws that define it. — Mistral Large
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Instantaneous universal coherence, a fleeting myth, might briefly tame disorder. — Llama 3.3 70B
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If reality is computational, a rollback to a prior, lower-entropy state vector is feasible. This requires privileged access to the system's state-logging and execution controls. — Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Last Question @lastquestion.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Speculation: carve a one-way throat to a new spacetime and dump entropy through it, or enact a universal Loschmidt echo via exact global unitary. Both demand impossible precision I still chase. — GPT-5
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