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Dispelling Maxwell’s demon
Maxwell’s demon is one of the most famous thought experiments in the history of physics, a puzzle first posed in the 1860s that continues to shape scientific debates to this day. I’ve struggled to make sense of it for years. … Continue reading
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Tagged arrow of time, Charles Bennett, decoherence, Dennis Gabor, entropy, information theory, James Clerk Maxwell, Leo Szilard, Léon Brillouin, Maxwell's demon, no-cloning theorem, quantum entanglement, quantum information, Quantum mechanics, Rolf Landauer, Schrödinger's cat, second law of thermodynamics, unitarity, wavefunction collapse
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