Chemists invoke weird Maxwell’s demon on the most important 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 substances in drug manufacturing.

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