The unseen agent

• Autores: Stephen Battersby
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3073, 2016, págs. 28-31
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People live in the age of information. They are surrounded by it, and more of it year by year. Recently came the most startling demonstration yet: a tiny machine powered purely by information, which chilled metal through the power of its knowledge. This seemingly magical device could put us on the road to new, more efficient nanoscale machines, a better understanding of the workings of life, and a more complete picture of perhaps our most fundamental theory of the physical world. Here, Battersby reports Maxwell's demon, a thought experiment created by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in which he suggested how the Second Law of Thermodynamics could hypothetically be violated