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How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?
The universe is a series of closed systems, that are all under the process of increasing entropy. In the observable universe, for example, there is an overall increase in disorder and chaos as time goes on. This can be seen by looking at how galaxies move away from one another over time (red shift), or how stars eventually burn out and turn into nothing but small rocks floating around other dead stars.
The earth is also a closed system that is constantly losing energy. Eventually, the sun will die out and there will be nothing left to light up the earth at night. Without any sunlight, photosynthesis would stop and life on Earth would cease to exist.
The idea that the net amount of entropy can be decreased in a closed system is absurd. The only way to decrease the overall chaos and disorder would be to transfer energy from one location, where it's not being used, to another place where there is some form of order or low entropy.
This is impossible, as the second law of thermodynamics states that entropy can never decrease in any kind of system. The only thing that entropy is guaranteed to do is increase over time.
So in order for there to be a massive decrease in the net amount of entropy of the universe, it would have to occur outside the confines of a closed system. It would require some form of energy transfer from one location where there is an abundance of energy at high temperatures (which is always moving around and constantly being used up) to another place that has low temperature and no energy.
This would require a violation of the first law of thermodynamics, which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. The only way this could occur is if there were some kind of perpetual motion machine that worked on a macro scale.