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Maxwell's Demon

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Maxwell's Demon Meets Quantum Dots - Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific Am.

Entropy. It’s at the root of one of the most famous physics thought experiments of the 20th century (second only to the infamous Schroedinger’s cat), devised by a Scottish physicist...

Demons Useful in Thought Experiments - Gunnar De Winter, Science 2.0

Thought experiments are mental exercises, or imaginative experiments, which are often not possible to perform with current technology. They appear to be particularly popular in physics...

Applying Demonology to 2nd Law of Thermodynamics - The Economist

SCIENTISTS are not, in their own imaginations anyway, much given to myths. There is one mythical beast, though, that has haunted physics for almost 150 years. In 1867 James Clerk Maxwell,...

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