Argonne Researchers Posit Way to Locally Circumvent Second Law of Thermodynamics
Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 12:31
in Psychology & Sociology
For more than a century and a half of physics, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that entropy always increases, has been as close to inviolable as any law we know. In this universe, chaos reigns supreme. But researchers with Argonne announced recently that they may have discovered a little loophole in this famous maxim. Their research, published in Nature Scientific Reports, lays out a possible avenue to a situation where the Second Law is violated on the microscopic level.