-----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton > Seriously, such a negative entropy source would be remarkably valuable.
Yes. But such an exotic species might not involve "negative entropy" so much as "accelerated entropy". The former implies an active gain while the later implies a hyperactive loss mechanism. Presumably the loss would go directly into the zero point field bypassing the normal blackbody thermodynamics. This is in contrast to being able to draw from ZPE - as we often theorize is the best way to find anomalous gain. Yet the irony is that it could still be just as useful in the reversed way. The precise way in which a anomalously lossy material could be valuable (in addition to free 'air conditioning' ;) would surely be as an instant heat sink for ambient. Jones
