JayJohn85
That is what I am asking too. The article specifically mentions "information energy equivalence".
The energy comes from the information not from another form of energy. They even calculated the energy value of a bit of information and estimated they could exploit about a a quarter of...
This is the statement in the article:
""Physicists in Japan have shown experimentally that a particle can be made to do work simply by receiving information, rather than energy."
And here's another statement in the article:
"The breakthrough in the latest work is to have quantified the...
So the statement in the article that clearly makes a distinction between information and energy is wrong? Notice the "rather than energy" part of the statement.
""Physicists in Japan have shown experimentally that a particle can be made to do work simply by receiving information, rather than...
Dr,
I am not claiming any violation of 2nd Law or anything like that.
I am asking about the reverse - converting energy to information.
If it can go one way, it ought to go the other way too.
It looks to me like converting electrical energy to thermal energy is just moving one form of energy...
"Physicists in Japan have shown experimentally that a particle can be made to do work simply by receiving information, rather than energy."
It seems to be something like a demonstration of Maxwell's Demon.
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2010/nov/19/information-converted-to-energy...