Episode 77: Maxwellian Ratchets with Alex Jurgens

Physics Frontiers by Jim Rantschler

Mar 31, 202481:10Science & Medicine

Jim talks with Alex Jurgens about Maxwellian ratchets, automata that are similar to Maxwell's Demon. They talk about their implications for information processing and entropy.

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