That article is way too concise and ambiguous. First of all, the article claims the device doesn't use energy because it uses light. Hello???!!! I guess solar power isn't energy either and if I power my house with solar panels, then it also doesn't use energy because it uses light. Also, the article makes one brief statement saying the device captures molecule sized particles. THis by itself doesn't mean jack with respect to Maxwell's demon because it didn't specify the initially conditions of the environment. Obviously, if there's a huge concentration of this particular molecule in the environment, then entropy and the concentration gradient would naturally force an influx of molecules into the trap. What Maxwell's demon implies is that there are somehow less conc. of the stuff outside then in so that whenever this molecule sized device is open, the molecules naturally tend to flow out and escape instead of flow in.
Even more oddly, Yahoo's article states that Steve died frmo the barb penetrating his heart...WTF? I can understand brushing against or accidentally stepping on the barb, but how did it impale him?
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That article is way too concise and ambiguous. First of all, the article claims the device doesn't use energy because it uses light. Hello???!!! I guess solar power isn't energy either and if I power my house with solar panels, then it also doesn't use energy because it uses light. Also, the article makes one brief statement saying the device captures molecule sized particles. THis by itself doesn't mean jack with respect to Maxwell's demon because it didn't specify the initially conditions of the environment. Obviously, if there's a huge concentration of this particular molecule in the environment, then entropy and the concentration gradient would naturally force an influx of molecules into the trap. What Maxwell's demon implies is that there are somehow less conc. of the stuff outside then in so that whenever this molecule sized device is open, the molecules naturally tend to flow out and escape instead of flow in.
Even more oddly, Yahoo's article states that Steve died frmo the barb penetrating his heart...WTF? I can understand brushing against or accidentally stepping on the barb, but how did it impale him?
and Oprah as Uhura, and Jackie Chan as Sulu with Ray Romano as Chekov!