Are irreversible processes absolutely irreversible, even given infinite time?

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Entropy reduction or quantum phenomena can occur microscopically, but entropy reduction is absolutely impossible by chance, and if a macroscopic object's wave function collapses due to measurement, does that mean that the macroscopic object will never be able to cause quantum phenomena? Even in a universe with infinite time?
 
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