Posted by: Drew | November 2, 2009

Philosophy of Science

Maxwell’s Demon lives
for more than a hundred years.
It cannot be killed.

Orly Shenker

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Maxwell’s Demon is a thought experiment, devised by James Clerk Maxwell in 1867 as a counter example for the Second Law of thermodynamics. Since then, people have tried to show that the law is valid and a Demon cannot exist. My thesis examines these attempts and shows that they are flawed.


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