Re: Maxwell's daemon

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From: Andy Resnick
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:30

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ib.mossin@hotmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to grasp the basic idea behind Maxwell's daemon. Is it just
> a thought experiment or has it any impact in the real world?

IMO, the real value to the Maxwell daemon thought problem was the 
realization that information has an associated entropy, and energy. 
Maxwell's daemon is thus resolved by considering it to be a transducer 
of information into heat.

-- 
Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Case Western Reserve University

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