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EntropyItem #: SCP-xxxx

A temperature–entropy diagram for steam under the effect of SCP-xxxx.

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: In accordance with Operation Gaslight, containment efforts primarily consist of maintaining public perception of SCP-xxxx as non-anomalous.

Public knowledge of SCP-xxxx-1, Event xxxx-1, Carnot Convection, or SCP-xxxx's anomalous nature shall be considered a containment breach, against which MTF Gamma-5 ("Red Herring") shall increase disinformation campaigns and utilize targeted Class B amnestics at their discretion.¹ Research likely to uncover the existence of SCP-xxxx-1 or the occurrence of Event xxxx-1 shall be monitored and suppressed.

Development of termination procedures for SCP-xxxx should be considered a Level Chi priority, however termination of SCP-xxxx requires prior approval by a majority of the O5 Council.²

Description: SCP-xxxx is a continuing phenomenon that began at 2:42 PM, April 19, 19██, designated Event xxxx-1.³ SCP-xxxx causes all closed systems to increase in entropy over time. SCP-xxxx appears to affect all regions of space, and no means of blocking or limiting SCP-xxxx have yet been developed.

It is hypothesized that SCP-xxxx inhibits Carnot Convection,⁴ as no Carnot Convection has been observed since Event xxxx-1. Research whether additional entropy is being actively inserted into our dimension is continuing. The practical effect of this increased entropy is increased randomization and uniformity of states of matter. This additional entropy itself is non-anomalous. It is hypothesized that SCP-xxxx will result in a ZK-Class Reality Failure Scenario in approximately 10¹⁰⁰ years.

All naturally occurring entropy (e.g. static interference) contains a coded message, designated SCP-xxxx-1. This message translates into the word "Enough."⁵ Initially thought to be a message in English, SCP-xxxx-1 was found to translate similarly into every language tested.⁶ SCP-xxxx-1 does not appear in entropic recordings made prior to Event xxxx-1.

Event xxxx-1 went largely unnoticed by the general population; the myriad of small effects were generally ignored, and fallout from larger effects were contained by Foundation efforts. Examples of such effects include the uniform failure of some automobile models, shifts in ocean currents, decreased efficiency of oven mitts, and an increase in culinary cooking times. Immediately following Event xxxx-1, MTF Gamma-5 efforts succeeded in quelling suspicions, attributing these effects to solar flares, industrial sabotage between home appliance vendors, and other mundane causes.

+ Selected Event and Testing Addenda:

Addendum SCP-xxxxm. Note the absence of Carnot Convection.

Addendum [SCP-xxxxa]:
Subject: Containment Unit for SCP-████
Immediately following Event xxxx-1, the perpetual motion device and four redundant backups used in containing SCP-████ simultaneously failed. Upon sensation of all movement in the SCP-████ containment chamber, SCP-████ breached containment and caused 19 Foundation casualties before containment could be reestablished. SCP-████ upgraded to Euclid.

Addendum [SCP-xxxxl]:
Subject: Spinning Top
A toy spinning top was spun via robotic device in a vacuum sealed chamber. The friction of the top against the floor of the chamber converted the rotational inertia of the top into negligible ambient heat. Carnot Convection failed to convert ambient heat back into rotational inertia, and the top fell over after fifteen (15) seconds, ceasing all further motion.

Addendum [SCP-xxxxm]:
Subject: Helium Gas
An airtight chamber filled with Helium gas was expanded, causing the helium molecules to spread throughout the space, as expected. However, the spread of the molecules did not at any time reverse. Carnot Convection did not occur, and the molecules seemed to be permanently spread into their lowest energy configuration, equally filling the chamber. This excess entropy was not absorbed and appears to be indestructible.

Addendum [SCP-xxxxr]:
Subject: Pocket Universes
SCP-xxxx is shown to affect some, but not all, known pocket universes.⁷ Research into siphoning excess entropy into kxxxx pocket universes is ongoing.

Addendum [SCP-xxxxaa]:
Subject: Main Sequence Stars
Observations of interstellar bodies have returned inconclusive results. Observation of Sol indicate that it is no longer attracting or absorbing interstellar radiation and is no longer forming new hydrogen atoms to fuel itself. The energy output of Sol remains unaffected by SCP-xxxx, but at the present rate of fuel consumption, Sol will consume its entire fuel supply in approximately five (5) billion years. It has not yet been determined whether the fuel creation of interstellar stars or interactions of interstellar bodies are affected by SCP-xxxx.

Addendum [xxxx-OG]: By unanimous vote of the O5 Council, Operation Gaslight was initiated, and the public consensus reality was changed on ███████, 19██, to incorporate SCP-xxxx as non-anomalous and as having always existed. Notably, forged research purportedly from Lazare Carnot was disseminated, and all references to the Second Law of Thermodynamics⁸ were replaced or modified to read in their entirety: "The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of any isolated system always increases." Scientists, textbook publishers, and other influential individuals have been inducted as E-class Agents of the Foundation or anesthetized. Self perpetuation of the updated public consensus reality was declared successful on ████████, 19██.

Joke Tale

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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Use of photograph as decoration in a departmental newsletter made the photo XXXX-Compliant.

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is housed in a standard humanoid containment cell at Humanoid Containment Site-06-3. The cell currently in use was previously occupied by SCP - ████, Neutralized, and all furnishings have remained in place since the neutralization of SCP - ████. Any repairs, replacements, or additions to SCP-XXX's living space, monitoring hardware and software, or support infrastructure must be approved by two Level 2 staff. Instead of provision of regular rations, all leftover food from Staff Cafeteria A shall be screened, and any food items discarded whole and uneaten shall be delivered into SCP-XXX's containment cell. Water may be provided according to standard procedures.

Description: SCP-XXXX appears to be a elderly female of indeterminate ethnicity. Medical examinations have shown it to be in average health for a 80-90 year old woman, suffering from minor arthritis. DNA testing has proven impossible as has virtually all chemically based analysis. SCP-XXXX was found managing and living in a nameless thrift store in Farmville, Virginia. No evidence of the store's construction or of SCP-XXXX's existence are included in any public records.

Viewers invariably comment that SCP-XXX bears a striking resemblance to subject's grandmother. Subjects who have never met their grandmothers will clarify that it is what their grandmother probably looked like.

Those interacting with SCP-XXXX will find themselves utterly unable to interact with it using any non-XXXX-Compliant objects, containment procedures procedures, or language. XXXX-Compliant objects are those objects which have been previously used in the intended fashion by a prior entity and discarded when no longer needed. XXXX-Compliant procedures are those previously implemented in interaction with other SCP entities. XXX-Compliant language includes any words, written or oral, that the subject has previously written or spoken.⁹

Statements by SCP-XXXX invariably include a caviot that it can "fend for [itself]", that it "don't want all this fuss," that it is "not picky," or other similar statment. Testing requests must file Form-329847-xxxx for consideration. Note that any such request must have been previously tried on another SCP prior to filing Form-329847-xxxx.

Footnotes

1. Increases in depression, nihilism and suicide attributable to knowledge of SCP-xxxx is deemed unavoidable and not a containment breach.

2. In accordance with Sub-Operation Crowdsource, public research into termination of SCP-xxxx shall be monitored and encouraged, and periodic seeding of the public discourse with suggestions that SCP-xxxx is a non-anomalous threat may be approved by any level 4/xxxx researcher. See, e.g., the Foundation developed story The Last Question, publicly attributed to Issac Asimov.

3. This is the approximate time and date [REDACTED] was developed by [REDACTED]. The possible relevance of this concurrence is under investigation.

4. The natural re-uptake of entropy by the space time continuum

5. For further analysis, see Ten Million Monkeys: Impossibility of Random Chance in SCP-xxxx-1, by Dr. P█████.

6. Including constructed and fictional languages such as Lojban.

7. All designations for such immune pocket universes shall henceforth include a suffix of -kxxxx.

8. The Law of Conservation of Entropy states that entropy cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system.

9. This language restriction rarely creates a hindrance, as those writing or speaking of or to SCP-XXXX rarely notice the compulsion. This restriction was only recognized when Researcher A██████ attempted and failed to refer to SCP-XXXX by its self reported name.