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This came up in another topic, but rather than talk on about it there, I created a new thread as it would be too far off subject for the said other thread.
I don't see the big deal about "Maxwell's Demon". Assuming the walls and everything in the system are perfect insulators, wouldn't (grossly oversimplifying here) the door, being the size of a molecule, have to be made of at least 1 molecule, and the 'creature' require enough energy to move this 1 molecule back and forth for each molecule/transition that must occur?
What does everyone think?
I don't see the big deal about "Maxwell's Demon". Assuming the walls and everything in the system are perfect insulators, wouldn't (grossly oversimplifying here) the door, being the size of a molecule, have to be made of at least 1 molecule, and the 'creature' require enough energy to move this 1 molecule back and forth for each molecule/transition that must occur?
What does everyone think?