Thoughts and ideas presented loosely as a novel. First draft.

The universe is ancient, old, and most importantly, dead. The heat death of the universe has taken it's toll, and not only have the last stars died out long before, but the remainder of the black holes that had formed the centers of the ancient galaxies have also evaporated completely. One lone starship floats through the vastness of space collecting the stray particles that litter the now otherwise empty void of space, but even the atomic nuclei are now beginning to break down and succumb to entropy. Can one lone scientist find a way to reverse the flow of entropy and save trillions of lives in an act that cannot be accomplished without defying the laws of physics?