Maxwell's demon: Slamming the door

John Maddox

Nature, 2002, vol. 417, issue 6892, 903-903

Abstract: This famous thought experiment sets out to show a paradox in the second law of thermodynamics, but in reality Maxwell's "neat fingered being" would not get away with it.

Date: 2002
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