Chemists invoke weird Maxwell’s demon on the biggest scale but

A chemical pump primarily based on a Nineteenth-century thought experiment involving an invisible “demon” could possibly be used to assist separate chemical compounds in drug manufacturing.

Maxwell’s demon, first proposed by physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1867, includes two containers of fuel separated by a weightless door that’s managed by a tiny demon. The demon solely lets faster-moving particles go by in a single path and slower particles go within the different path, which makes one field hotter and the opposite cooler. However this appears to violate the …