In the philosophy of thermal and statistical physics, Maxwell`s demon is a thought experiment created by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell to `show that the Second Law of Thermodynamics has only a statistical certainty`. It demonstrates Maxwell`s point by hypothetically describing how to violate the Second Law: a container of gas molecules at ...
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hypothetical intelligent being (or a functionally equivalent device) capable of detecting and reacting to the motions of individual molecules. It ...
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A certain thought experiment (see article on this site's name).
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noun an imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole; this would result ...
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