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Comment author: ata 27 April 2011 10:39:50PM 0 points [-]

Right, sorry, I was referring to subjective information loss. I understand that information is globally conserved.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 27 April 2011 10:52:17PM 3 points [-]

Won't help. You could have a universe that includes chronoscopes but still have the problem that it's continuously filling up with entropy.

Comment author: ata 27 April 2011 11:18:25PM 5 points [-]

Apparently I don't actually understand this subject, so I hereby relinquish my previous opinion about it and won't form a new one (beyond taking better-informed people's word for it for now) until I've learned it better.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 28 April 2011 11:56:11PM 4 points [-]

You could have a universe though that gains more "room" for entropy faster than it gains entropy... so entropy keeps increasing, but there's an ever increasing entropy sink, right?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 April 2011 12:54:19AM 1 point [-]

That's another way to do it.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 29 April 2011 03:13:37AM 1 point [-]

One question one might ask is if our own universe has that property.