The question might be better phrased as: If one could contrive to heat or cool the entirety of the universe, would the effect of entropy - the tendency of the universe to proceed toward disorder - be hastened or retarded.
As noted below, entropy has a little to do with time itself under certain interpretations, so the question doesn't really make sense.
However, the expenditure of energy leads to an increase in entropy. Heat is a higher energy state than cold. Therefore, I'm concluding, putting the universe on a stove will result in the entropic goo state sooner than putting it in the fridge.
No, just something that was bugging me. However, someone else has pointed out to me that time itself can be interpreted as a measure of entropic decay - so asking how fast entropic decay goes under given conditions is half-way to meaningless.
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The question might be better phrased as: If one could contrive to heat or cool the entirety of the universe, would the effect of entropy - the tendency of the universe to proceed toward disorder - be hastened or retarded.
As noted below, entropy has a little to do with time itself under certain interpretations, so the question doesn't really make sense.
However, the expenditure of energy leads to an increase in entropy. Heat is a higher energy state than cold. Therefore, I'm concluding, putting the universe on a stove will result in the entropic goo state sooner than putting it in the fridge.
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