Timeline for Is the concept of entropy a result of limited technology?
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| Mar 27, 2023 at 1:46 | answer | added | CactusJuce | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 3:22 | comment | added | ERBuermann | @innisfree after researching Maxwell's Demon, I saw the issue brought up that observing each molecule to slow them down would use more energy than it would output. However, there was no mention on bending spacetime to slow a molecule down, so that's something. | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 3:17 | vote | accept | ERBuermann | ||
| Mar 17, 2023 at 16:53 | comment | added | innisfree | Hang on, the OP has sort of discovered Maxwell’s demon. Didn’t Maxwell use the demon to represent a sophisticated technology that could defeat the second law? | |
| Mar 17, 2023 at 16:51 | answer | added | niels nielsen | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 17, 2023 at 16:14 | answer | added | Chemomechanics | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 17, 2023 at 15:15 | answer | added | hyportnex | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 17, 2023 at 15:04 | comment | added | ERBuermann | @NuclearHoagie That is true, but given technological progression, energy transfer is getting more and more efficient. Given enough expertise and technology, you can charge a battery more efficiently (generally, this is what innovations in batteries are working towards: more efficient transfer of energy). Would it not be possible, then, to eventually harness at least some of the energy locked in entropy? Before the advent of the steam engine, heat could be considered "entropy" because there was no way to harness it. | |
| Mar 17, 2023 at 14:57 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | Putting more energy into something than you get out is not "extracting energy". It's like saying you can harness the energy of a dead battery by expending a bunch of energy to charge it up, and then powering something with it and recovering less energy than you spent. The dead battery accomplishes less than nothing, charging it simply wastes the useful energy you had in the first place. | |
| Mar 17, 2023 at 14:50 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Mar 17, 2023 at 14:44 | history | asked | ERBuermann | CC BY-SA 4.0 |