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How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists [Entropy]
https://www.quantamagazine.org ^ | APRIL 22, 2021 | Jonathan O'Callaghan

Posted on 04/29/2021 10:38:11 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 04/29/2021 10:38:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

Pingy!....................


2 posted on 04/29/2021 10:38:30 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

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3 posted on 04/29/2021 10:41:26 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: Red Badger

O’Callaghan is a political genius!

“After a while, the left-hand compartment would be full of slow, cold particles...” And there’s where the word “demon” comes into play.


4 posted on 04/29/2021 10:46:35 AM PDT by sanjuanbob (Do NOT buy Chinese Products)
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The researchers then implemented such a gambling demon in a nanoelectronic device, to show it was possible.

The demon is now rehabbing in a secure Gamblers Anonymous facility and retaining a lawyer because he was forced into a gambling detail, which he did NOT volunteer for, and as a result suffers gambling addiction. He, his name is kept confidential, is seeking compensation for kidnapping, mental cruelty and miscellaneous damages.

5 posted on 04/29/2021 10:48:31 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Jeffrey Epsteins last words "I am not committing suicide".)
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Thermodynamics: It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.


6 posted on 04/29/2021 10:54:04 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Red Badger

Maxwell’s demon retired to a nursing home a long time ago - you can easily recognize him - he’s the one with Schrodinger’s cat in his lap (or not).


7 posted on 04/29/2021 10:54:23 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Red Badger

Unmixing Color Machine (Ultra Laminar Reversible Flow) - Smarter Every Day 217

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j2_dJY_mIys


8 posted on 04/29/2021 10:59:30 AM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
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To: Red Badger

Alaska and space are not the final frontiers. Quantum mechanics is. Just because it’s spooky is no reason not to study it.


9 posted on 04/29/2021 11:00:44 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Jeffrey Epsteins last words "I am not committing suicide".)
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To: ADemocratNoMore

Let me know when they can unscramble an egg....................


10 posted on 04/29/2021 11:07:17 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and the Law of Conservation of Energy prove an intelligent orderly creator of the universe. Personality and civil/moral law proves a personal God


11 posted on 04/29/2021 11:11:50 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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The mere existence of anything proves the existence of God................


12 posted on 04/29/2021 11:16:34 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

re: “The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example, dropping a thimbleful of red dye into a swimming pool. All of those dye molecules ... But there are uncountable billions of permutations ... If the universe chooses from all the possible states at random, you can bet that it’s going to end up with one of the vast set of disordered possibilities.”

And yet - nature DOES organize.

I give you 1) Animal life and 2) storm structures (notably, tornadic thunderstorms and hurricanes).


13 posted on 04/29/2021 11:22:24 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: Red Badger

This is why thought experiments are interspersed but are not proof


14 posted on 04/29/2021 11:30:31 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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re: “Quantum mechanics is.”

100 yr old ideas/idealogy BADLY in need of a re-write.

“Steven Weinberg on What’s the matter with quantum mechanics?”

https://youtu.be/3nnLbRaxtCE?t=227


15 posted on 04/29/2021 11:30:39 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: Red Badger
LOL...I once attended a lecture by one of the world's greatest interpreters of the physical and metaphysical aspects of the universe.


Professor Irwin Corey..Genius

The good prof explained in great detail that it was necessary to enact Newton's third law in order to keep humanity from continually falling on its ass.

16 posted on 04/29/2021 11:46:20 AM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground - Mencken)
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To: Red Badger

Japanese physicists have demonstrated the equivalence of information and energy. So the Trinity surfaces again. Matter, Energy, Information.

https://physicsworld.com/a/information-converted-to-energy/

https://amazon.com/Astrophysics-Cosmology-Gravity-Like-Fields-Dr%C3%B6scher/dp/3000506241/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=gravity-like+fields&qid=1619721907&s=books&sr=1-1


17 posted on 04/29/2021 11:47:02 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: SubMareener

That explains why I get fatter when I read a lot..................


18 posted on 04/29/2021 11:48:52 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

It’s Elvislution - the entire universe is tending to the perfection of Elvis.


19 posted on 04/29/2021 11:49:47 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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“He realized that Maxwell’s demon was at core an information-processing machine: It needed to record and store information about individual particles in order to decide when to open and close the door.”

Seems like there’s a flaw in this logic, since the “demon” could simply be a cleverly-designed valve, which would involve no information processing in the traditional sense, but would still accomplish the same purpose.


20 posted on 04/29/2021 11:59:24 AM PDT by Boogieman
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