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What is the power output of the visible universe?

This worm hole I'm constructing needs a lot of power to keep it open. I gather it needs about as much power as there is in the visible universe.

How do I set about harnessing this energy source? Obviously I need to concentrate it in a fairly small area, maybe a few of square metres, or at least big enough for me to climb through it.

What technical hurdles do I need to overcome?

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Jon-Richfield says:

Firstly, take my tip and don't do it! Hawking thinks it could be deleterious to your health; you would probably emerge from the other end in the form of a burst of incoherent radiation, if at all.

As for the technical problems, the main one as I see it would be that you would need to overcome the second law of thermodynamics, which is what you would need to concentrate the distributed energy of the universe in a relatively small space.

If you could manage that on even a small scale, say with the energy of a few icebergs, or the surface of a desert or two, never mind galaxies or universes, you could afford to ignore anything as boring as a wormhole, even one that would let you travel through it unharmed.

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