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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (42905)12/8/1998 4:58:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1586735
 
RE: Maxwell's Demon

Perhaps you mean Maxwell's Demon (who hypothetically sits between two boxes and kicks molecules of gas into one box or the other, thus violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics).
A recent accessible book is Maxwell's Demon : Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes by Hans Christian Von Baeyer.