Talk:Physics Manipulation/@comment-9597460-20130519023115/@comment-5265497-20130519091142

"One of the best uses for this would be to reverse entropy (the Second Law of Thermodynamics)." The second law of thermodynamics does not state that every tends toward disorder monotonically as order can still be maintained and increased as demonstrated by the state of life on Earth through the transfer of energy. Second, there is a difference between uniformity and order. A "chaotic" system (of molecules, for instance) is hypothetically uniform. In other words, an arrangement of molecules equally spaced out so you could make a grid out of them is more "chaotic" than a random or haphazard arrangement of molecules. "I read a story once about a supervillain who had a gun that reversed entropy." And that's just bad science, there has to be physical intervention and energy transmission to do such a feat. Entropy is steadily increasing and decreasing all around us and we know it tends toward disorder, but It's still an ongoing process. To make matters even more confusing that the all of my these arguments hinge on the assumption that the Universe is a closed system. If you abandon that assumption, the whole ball-game changes. So one has to seriously consider whether this assumption is warranted in the first place. After all no truly closed systems exist in the world that we observe.