• DOI:10.1038/417903A
Corpus ID: 4417753

Maxwell's demon: Slamming the door

@article{Maddox2002MaxwellsDS,
  title={Maxwell's demon: Slamming the door},
  author={J. Maddox},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2002},
  volume={417},
  pages={903-903}
}

J. Maddox

Published 2002

Medicine, Physics

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This famous thought experiment sets out to show a paradox in the second law of thermodynamics, but in reality Maxwell's "neat fingered being" would not get away with it.