>>>>If you wait a few million years I bet it gets used again several times.
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>>>You can't talk the Second Law of Thermodynamics away so lightly. There are irreversible processes, there is no way around it.
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>>All that arises must converge.
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>>The first and second laws of thermodynamics in my model are not fundamental laws of the Universe.
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>>They are statistical approximations that help describe physical phenomena in a local and limited domain of applicability.
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>I mentioned certain specific irreversible processes. You might say, supposedly irreversible. How do you deal with those? Or do you still have to think about it?

I don't deny there are irreversible processes.

I just don't think that is proof the the Universe has to be a finite age.


>1. Fuel gets used up, as hydrogen gets converted to helium and metals.

That just means stars and galaxies have a finite lifetime. Not the Universe.


>2. Dying stars leave a residue that can't get recycled into new stars.

Not even if they fall into another star?


>3. There is lots of observational evidence that some billions of years ago, the Universe was different from now.

Actually, new telescopes usually reveal the Universe is older than we thought, hence inflationary models.