Maxwell's Demon Soon A Reality?

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 1, 2007 @09:23AM from the chomp-chomp-evil-snacking dept.

DMiax writes "Reuters reports that a group of scientists from University of Edimburgh may have realized a nanomolecular engine - a Maxwell's Demon. The device selects and traps other molecules based on their direction of motion. Physicist James Maxwell first imagined the nano-scale device in 1867, and the research team cites him as the basis for their understanding of how lights, heat, and molecules interact. The device is powered by light, and may spur advances in nano-scale technology to new heights in coming years."

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Re:Lack of diagrams by oftencloudy · 2007-02-01 10:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

whoa whoa! that diagram is far too large to pertain to the subject at hand. please redraw or use mine:

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But whatever the object, you must keep him praying to it. To the thing he has made, not to the person that has made him.