Gatekeepers of mainstream science are merciless to outside critics but there are always inside "mavericks" who should create the impression that criticism is enough and, what is even more important, prevent money and accolades from leaving the mainstream in case some heresy happens to prevail. In relativity such internal "mavericks" are (were) Lee Smolin and Joao Magueijo. In thermodynamics only one person has been allowed to play this role:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBp_SPJAOJc
Challenges to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics - Daniel Sheehan

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...htmlstory.html
"But what if there are exceptions to the Second Law, Sheehan asks. Not in the observable, measurable world, but at the fantastical quantum level where the large laws of physics often don't appear to apply. If that's the case, then a concept like "reverse causation" - another idea Sheehan has championed as worthy of further investigation - might be possible. Reverse causation is the notion that effect can precede cause, that the future can influence the past because time is symmetrical. That is, time moves or has the ability to move equally in any direction, an assertion firmly grounded in classical laws of physics. "The future has just about as much reality as the past, each can grab hold of us," Sheehan said."

https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.daniel.p.sheehan
"Daniel P. Sheehan, Ph.D. is Professor of Physics at University of San Diego. Daniel has a number of research interests including exotic plasmas (dusty and negative ion types), nonlinear fluid mechanisms for planet formation, sports physics, nanotechnology, chemical catalysts, and the physics of retrocausation (the proposition that the future can influence the past). Over the last two decades he has investigated theoretical and experimental challenges to the second law of thermodynamics. He coauthored the first mainstream scientific treatise on second law challenges and organized the first international conferences on the subject. He is a fan of the philosophers of science Kuhn and especially Feyerabend who believes that, when it comes to scientific discovery, "Anything goes!"

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