Cosmic Insignificance Therapy (#274)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
James Clerk Maxwell came up with a thought experiment to seemingly violate the most sacrosanct of all physical theories, which is the second law of thermodynamics. The demon controls a tiny partition that's massless between two chambers, each containing gas. And as the individual gas molecules or atoms approach the door partition, the demon quickly opens and closes the door only to allow fast moving molecules to say occupy the chamber on the left.
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