Central to this debate is the paradox of “Maxwell’s Demon,” a thought experiment proposed by physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1867,” the study authors note. According to the second law of ...

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Maxwell's Demon This hypothetical being, invoked by James Clerk Maxwell nearly a century ago as a violator of the second law of thermodynamics, has occupied the minds of many prominent physicists ...

now called Maxwell's demon, that seemingly disproves the second law of thermodynamics. To be fair, he didn't initially call it a "demon," but physics is the one field of science unafraid to invoke ...