this is what happens when I'm angry at work

[anax]

I was in an ALLCAPS RAGE today at work because of some work stuff, and of course that meant that I needed to have a totally not-work-related conversation with herongale in email. The topic we chose today is Skywarp's teleportation ability. Because trying to put limits and definitions on something that was invented for a toy intended for tweeners 25 years

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[temalyen]

I don't have time to look it up unfortunately, but I could swear I remembered reading something that said there are certain theoretical situations where Thermodynamics break down. Therefore, knowing they can stop working, I'd be inclined to disregard them if it at all fit with one of the theoretical situations where they break down. I know Relativity breaks down in black holes, and I'd imagine thermodynamics start getting odd in black holes as well. Though I also doubt Skywarp could get away from a black hole (as he may need infinite energy to do so if he's on the other end of the event horizon, though he'd likely be torn apart before he could do anything), so this problem is probably moot.

[anax]

I'm not aware of any known situations in which thermodynamics can be violated. That's not to say that there aren't any. Black holes conserve thermodynamics, though ... it was originally theorized that by throwing a high-entropy object into a black hole, the entropy of that object would be "lost" in a way, since black holes eliminate all information about an object other than its mass and angular momentum. However, Stephen Hawking later found that the size of the event horizon is also a measure of entropy, so entropy does not actually decrease. Christmas (and the second law) was saved