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    Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment that appears to disprove the second law of thermodynamics. It was proposed by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell...
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  • 1970s and 1980s. Brian Slade's gradually overwhelming stage persona of "Maxwell Demon" and his backing band, "Venus in Furs", resemble Bowie's Ziggy Stardust...
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  • Darwinian demons in thought experiments to understand different life history strategies among different organisms. Darwinian demons (inspired by Maxwell's demons)...
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    led him to devise the thought experiment that came to be known as Maxwell's demon, where the second law of thermodynamics is violated by an imaginary...
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    In the history of science, Laplace's demon was a notable published articulation of causal determinism on a scientific basis by Pierre-Simon Laplace in...
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    scientist obsessed with perpetual motion. He has tried to invent a type of Maxwell's demon to create a perpetual motion machine. Oedipa visits him to see the...
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  • "demon" here does not necessarily connotate a demon, a malevolent being. For instance, when William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) came up with the Maxwell's demon...
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  • Look up demon, daemon, or dæmon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A demon is a malevolent supernatural being in religion, occultism, mythology, folklore...
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    around 1963, his team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary agent in physics and thermodynamics that helped to sort...
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    molecular demon or biological molecular machine is a biological macromolecule that resembles and seems to have the same properties as Maxwell's demon. These...
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    entropy caused by the demon would be less than the entropy produced by choosing molecules based on their speed. Maxwell's 'demon' repeatedly alters the...
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  • are the products of natural selection. The third chapter is named "Maxwell's Demons". It starts off by stating that proteins are the molecular agents of...
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    least to Maxwell's demon) is unidirectionality. Only molecules moving fast enough and in the right direction are allowed through the demon's trap door...
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    University, where he studied physics. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Maxwell's demon, a long-standing puzzle in the philosophy of thermal and statistical...
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    the context of Maxwell's demon. The name comes from a thought experiment described by James Clerk Maxwell in which a microscopic demon guards a gate between...
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  • refinement of the famous Maxwell's demon scenario (and a reversal of the Joule expansion thought experiment). Consider Maxwell's set-up, but with only a...
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  • "... the situation with respect to Maxwell's paradox", in Leff, Harvey S.; Rex, A. F., eds. (2003). Maxwell's Demon 2: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information...
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  • thesis Maxwell's demon Koomey's law No-deleting theorem Charles H. Bennett (2003), "Notes on Landauer's principle, Reversible Computation and Maxwell's Demon"...
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  • the past. Later authors have coined the term "Loschmitz's demon" (in analogy to Maxwell's demon, see below) for an entity that is able to reverse time evolution...
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  • create a heat pump, which of course would comply with the second law. A Maxwell's demon conducts an extremely idealized and naturally unrealizable kind of...
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    Maxwell's relations are a set of equations in thermodynamics which are derivable from the symmetry of second derivatives and from the definitions of the...
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    Translated by H. W. & F. G. Fowler. Randall L. Schweller (3 April 2014). Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium. JHU Press...
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    Maxwell & Demon Gargoyle is an outdoor 1989 sculpture by Wayne Chabre, installed in Eugene, Oregon, in the United States. It is a low-relief portrait...
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    machines Philosophy Entropy and time Entropy and life Brownian ratchet Maxwell's demon Heat death paradox Loschmidt's paradox Synergetics Theories Caloric...
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    manuscript The Rule of Phase Applied to History, Adams attempted to use Maxwell's demon as a historical metaphor, though he seems to have misunderstood and...
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  • by a local reversal of the second law through the intervention of Maxwell's demon who has introduced himself to Maud in one of her dreams). Mr Tompkins'...
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    production Toffoli gate Time evolution Quantum circuit Reversible computing Maxwell's demon Stirling engine McGovern, Judith (17 March 2020). "Reversible processes"...
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    on Lenoir's. 1867 – James Clerk Maxwell postulated the thought experiment that later became known as Maxwell's demon. This appeared to violate the second...
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    of a tiny paddle wheel and a ratchet, appears to be an example of a Maxwell's demon, able to extract mechanical work from random fluctuations (heat) in...
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    perfectly sealed environment and a tiny bit of radioactive substance, and Maxwell's demon, which attempts to demonstrate the ability of a hypothetical finite...
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