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So let’s start from the beginning. Any wild idea especially the ones related to energy or free work, somehow always ends up clashing with the Second Law of Thermodynamics. You know the one in a closed system, entropy always increases. Disorder grows, energy spreads, and no matter how clever your trick is, this law finds a way to spoil the party.
Most “too good to be true” ideas eventually violate this law sometimes directly, sometimes in disguise. And if the idea is bold and doesn’t break the second law right away, don’t worry, someone will invent a new law or principle just to shut it down.
That’s basically what happened with Maxwell’s Demon.
Now, I’m not going to dive too deep into it you can search it up on YouTube for visuals but here’s a short and sweet version -
Imagine a closed box, split in half by a wall, creating two chambers. In this wall, there’s a tiny, ideal door — frictionless, no energy loss, perfect in every sense.
The box is filled with gas, particles flying around at random speeds and directions.
Now here comes the fun part — Maxwell imagined a little creature (the “demon”) who operates this door. Every time a fast-moving particle approaches the door from chamber A, the demon opens it and lets it pass to chamber B. If a slow particle approaches from the other side, he keeps the door shut. Rinse and repeat.
Over time, chamber B gets filled with fast (hot) particles, and chamber A fills with slower (cooler) ones.
Boom! You’ve just created a temperature gradient essentially harnessed usable energy without doing any work.
That’s a direct punch in the face to the second law. Entropy decreased in one half of the box, seemingly for free.
So… what went wrong?
Well, like I said before — wild idea, new rule to kill it.
Enter Leó Szilárd and Rolf Landauer . They explained the demon’s fatal flaw. In order to sort the particles, the demon has to gather information measuring the speed and direction of each particle. And here’s the kicker -> when the demon wants to make room for new data (by erasing old information), that erasure itself increases entropy.
So the second law survives barely but now it’s dressed in the robes of information theory.
But what if there’s another way? A loophole? A twist?
That’s where the VGETA framework comes in.
VGETA stands for “V. Gradient Entropy Theory of Asymmetry”.
Now what’s “V”? Okay. Bit embarrassing. It stands for the author’s name. Yeah. Me.
And yes, I was a huge fan of DBZ as a kid. After coming up with “GETA”, I realized if I just add “V”, it sounds like the prince of all Saiyans. Cool, right? But yeah. When you see the full form, it kind of kills the vibe.
Anyway. Let’s move on.
So VGETA was born from a simple thought.
Remember the demon’s problem? The infinite permutations of colliding particles. That chaos made memory a nightmare.
So I thought. What if… no collisions?
Just for this thought experiment, assume all particles are collisionless.
Now the second problem the demon had. The “information rule”. You can’t measure or erase without entropy cost.
So what if we don’t measure anything?
Here’s where the idea hit me. “Fast moving and slow moving”.
If particles have different speeds and they don’t collide, then over time, fast ones will move away from the slow ones. Naturally. No sorting. No measuring.
Take this analogy. A 100 meter race. You have 10 rabbits and 10 tortoises. They all start together. But they can’t collide.
Pretty obvious, right? After a while, the rabbits will be ahead. Sorted by speed. No one measured anything. They just ran!
That’s the core of the idea.
Now let’s move to the actual experiment.
Instead of a track, imagine a giant hollow sphere. That’s our playground.
Inside it, place a spherical gate. Just imagine it. At some fixed radius r, smaller than the big sphere. The gate is open for now. But at a pre-set time t, it shuts forever. Nothing will pass through after that.
Now drop in a cloud of gas at the centre at time t = 0. The gas is made of collisionless particles with random speeds. Let the system evolve.
Fast particles start moving outward faster than the slow ones. Naturally. No collisions. No force. Just motion.
And at time t, the gate shuts. That’s it. You now have two zones. Inner and outer.
And guess what. The fast particles are now in the outer zone. Slow ones in the inner.
No measurement. No information cost. No law broken.
Now yeah. The gate is kind of alien tech. And the timing is based on rough estimates from the sphere’s size. But still. It works.
You’ve created a natural entropy gradient !
And that’s where VGETA is born.
And that gate? That was the weak link.
But here’s the kicker.
Even without the gate, the expanding universe itself can sort particles by speed if collisions are rare.
That’s exactly what the early universe looked like after the Big Bang. During the late radiation era or early matter era.
You can test it on your computer !!
Make a 2D or 3D simulation. Use collisionless particles. Give them random velocities. Start around the centre. Let space expand. Inject no external force.
Then start measuring particle accelerations over time.
If acceleration is nonzero, something’s acting! And if it’s outward, that’s the VEE force in action. A force that comes from entropy. Just like VGETA predicts.
Why It Might Matter Cosmologically ?
In the early universe, especially right after the Big Bang, many regions were nearly collisionless for stretches of time.
If VGETA’s logic holds, this entropy-based force might have played a small but meaningful role in shaping large-scale structure. A kind of repulsion gently balancing gravity, seeded not by dark energy or exotic fields, but by disorder itself.
It’s speculative, for sure. But the math checks out, and the intuition is surprisingly clean. So yeah. That’s my idea.
Why I’m Putting This Out There?
I’m not trying to overturn physics. Just sharing an idea that came from connecting a few dots differently.
Maybe it’s wrong. Maybe it’s been tried and ruled out in a way I haven’t seen. But if nothing else, I hope it’s at least… interesting.
And if you’re into particle sims or entropy or early-universe stuff, and this catches your curiosity — feel free to replicate, critique, or expand on it. I’d genuinely love that.
Because maybe, just maybe, entropy doesn’t just spread energy.
Maybe — sometimes — it pushes back !
I used an open-source GPT model to make this post more concise and grammatically correct and to generate images. But if this caught your attention even a bit, check out my paper.
