maxwell's demon

Noun
  1. An imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole;
    This would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics (synset 109512276)
    is an instance of: imaginary being, imaginary creature - a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction

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