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Inspired by this CRT, I decided to give the feat a shot based on what I thought was the necessary physics context.
In ZSJL, the Mother Boxes are instruments capable of converting energy to create or form matter. They are world creating/destroying machines; the three together forming the Unity, which transforms the planets they are unleashed upon into an exact copy of Apokolips, stripping all transformed-life of free will. The Mother Boxes operate with a science so advanced it’s blatantly considered to be sorcery by the old gods, identified by STAR Labs as collective perpetual energy matrices. To add on,
Here is the attempt:
The Bekenstein bound is used for the entropy because the intermediate terraforming state, a singularity-like collapse into a quasar object equivalent, places the system outside the regime where classical statistical mechanics can meaningfully define entropy. It’s literally the most high entropy thing possible, which makes the information-theoretic treatment necessary, and Landauer's principle then prices the two operations: erasing Earth's ~10⁷⁵-bit microstate configuration, and writing the corresponding ~10⁷⁵ bits of Apokolips', assumed roughly equivalent in complexity due to being similar-scale planets.
The reservoir temperature is taken as 300 K throughout. This is justified variably: it is the ambient operating temperature of the Mother Boxes, which are sitting in open atmosphere; it corresponds to the configuration temperature of both the input state (Earth) and the target state (Apokolips); and the Mother Boxes are treated as a closed, self-contained system, feeding energy between each other rather than radiating into space. The alternative, an open system radiating at quasar temperatures, is ruled out as the energy dumped into the surrounding space would be sufficient to destroy Apokolips before it could form.
Thoughts?
In ZSJL, the Mother Boxes are instruments capable of converting energy to create or form matter. They are world creating/destroying machines; the three together forming the Unity, which transforms the planets they are unleashed upon into an exact copy of Apokolips, stripping all transformed-life of free will. The Mother Boxes operate with a science so advanced it’s blatantly considered to be sorcery by the old gods, identified by STAR Labs as collective perpetual energy matrices. To add on,
- Cyborg explicitly says they “rearrange, regenerate, reinstate” matter by will, being fundamentally classified as “change machines”.
- A singular box has “the power [to] reinstate anterior particle relationships”, “in the way that particles of matter can't be created or destroyed, their relations just transform.”
- Analogized to smoke being produced from a house being burned down, Mother Boxes have the unique property of turning “smoke back into a house”, and can bring people back to life after months of being dead.
- The Boxes are able to arbitrarily absorb energy to the point of withstanding a STAR Labs electron laser generating enough X-Rays to exceed temperatures of anything else on the Earth’s surface.
- The Unity was capable of completely disintegrating Superman, despite Clark previously in MoS using his willpower to reconstitute his body in the presence of the Kryptonian pseudo-singularity, which explicitly stripped down objects to their subatomic components and disintegrated people on a quantum level.
- Barry had to phase into the Extradimensional Speed Force to avoid the Unity vaporizing him, subsequently needing to go “way past the speed of light” just to reverse time in order to avoid the complete destruction of everything.
- In the time travel sequence, the intermediate state between the two configurations (Earth and Apokolips) is explicitly described as a “void, with a quasar at the origin”, with literally everything else being erased.
Here is the attempt:
The Bekenstein bound is used for the entropy because the intermediate terraforming state, a singularity-like collapse into a quasar object equivalent, places the system outside the regime where classical statistical mechanics can meaningfully define entropy. It’s literally the most high entropy thing possible, which makes the information-theoretic treatment necessary, and Landauer's principle then prices the two operations: erasing Earth's ~10⁷⁵-bit microstate configuration, and writing the corresponding ~10⁷⁵ bits of Apokolips', assumed roughly equivalent in complexity due to being similar-scale planets.
The reservoir temperature is taken as 300 K throughout. This is justified variably: it is the ambient operating temperature of the Mother Boxes, which are sitting in open atmosphere; it corresponds to the configuration temperature of both the input state (Earth) and the target state (Apokolips); and the Mother Boxes are treated as a closed, self-contained system, feeding energy between each other rather than radiating into space. The alternative, an open system radiating at quasar temperatures, is ruled out as the energy dumped into the surrounding space would be sufficient to destroy Apokolips before it could form.
Thoughts?
