Yes! Yes it would! This is a) the source of the book's crisis because this space is encroaching into ours and b) utterly and completely handwaved by the magical engine magically encapsulating them in a bubble of entropy which nevertheless magically manages to have zero effect on the erasure of "entropic" emotions. *is still deeply exasperated by this*

This isn't just hanging my disbelief by the neck until dead, this is swinging it around by the noose and slingshotting it into deep space.