Physicist James Clerk Maxwell proposed his demonic thought experiment in 1867
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A chemical pump primarily based on a Nineteenth-century thought experiment involving an invisible “demon” may very well be used to assist separate chemical substances in drug manufacturing.
Maxwell’s demon, first proposed by physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1867, entails two packing containers of fuel separated by a weightless door that’s managed by a tiny demon. The demon solely lets faster-moving particles move by means of in a single route and slower particles move within the different route, which makes one field hotter and the opposite cooler. However this appears to violate the …
