Maxwell's Demon by PTuniverse
A simulation of Maxwell's Demon, a thought experiment created by James Clerk Maxwell which demonstrates the ability of a hypothetical finite being (the demon) capable of violating The Second Law of Thermodynamics which has been proven today to not do so.
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Comments
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Sandwichlizard 4th Dec 2014
@tothemyers. yup, you can buy one from digikey for about 40 dollars US. -
Death_Silence_66 4th Dec 2014
i feel smart for already knowing this. -
tothemyers 3rd Dec 2014
Fact: Today, there are devices that use thermoelectric cooling to transfer heat from one side to the other. They have the appearance of flat sheets of metal (kind of), or in other words, they aren't air conditions. They use something called the Peltier Effect. I swear I'm not making this up - look it up, it's real. -
daniel46350 3rd Dec 2014
@blk some times entroy is used ask chaso, but op is talking about the mathematical entropy, which can never be reversed, and the demon is reversing it by breaking thermodynamics -
Yoyoshiny 3rd Dec 2014
it didnt explode o_o -
blk 3rd Dec 2014
Wouldn't entropy be better desccribed as chaos/unpredictability/randomness? -
VendettaWaffles 3rd Dec 2014
@chinapowder24 There aren't demons, either. That isn't the point. -
KAZZA197 3rd Dec 2014
This doesnt break it though, it doesnt use temperature or sameness. -
candorgen 3rd Dec 2014
Wanted to see this come up, it has now -
Verbruggen 3rd Dec 2014
Great, trying to take a break of studying for my thermodynamics test coming friday by opening tpt, still getting reminded of the subject XD. But cool +1