Professor Maxwells Duplicitous Demon
Professor Maxwells Duplicitous Demon Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. He uncovered the way gases behave. But ask a physicist and…
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Professor Maxwells Duplicitous Demon
Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. He uncovered the way gases behave. But ask a physicist and there's no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list.Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, explained how we perceive colour.
'Maxwell's demon' is a tiny but thoroughly disruptive thought experiment that suggests the second law of thermodynamics, the law that governs the flow of time itself, can be broken. And, most significantly, he transformed the way physics was undertaken in his explanation of the interaction of electricity and magnetism, revealing the nature of light and laying the groundwork for everything from Einstein's special relativity to modern electronics.Along the way, he set up one of the most enduring challenges in physics, one that has taxed the best minds ever since.