From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-07-20T05:40:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)


On Jul 19, 2007, at 3:30 PM, MenTaLguY wrote:
> "Maxwell's Demon" is a famous thought experiment in thermodynamics:
> imagine a container of gas separated into two compartments, with a  
> small
> closable aperture between them controlled by an extremely quick and
> perceptive creature (the "demon").  As the gas molecules move around
> randomly, the demon opens the aperture at opportune moments to permit
> "warmer" molecules to pass in one direction between the compartments,
> and "colder" molecules in the opposite.  The question Maxwell  
> sought to
> raise is whether such an arrangement would/could violate the second  
> law
> of thermodynamics.
>
> I don't know offhand whether MIT students did name their background
> processes after the demon in Maxwell's thought experiment, but it  
> seems
> unlikely.

If it's been on Wikipedia for more than a month, it MUST be true. Bad  
things tend to get eliminated quickly.

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