Do not upset Maxwell’s demon when you’re down there sorting the cold atoms from the hot ones!
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Godort@lemm.ee 4 months ago
To be fair, the physics that makes refrigeration work does feel like you’re manipulating primal forces like a wizard
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
oce@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Did Maxwell contribute to thermodynamics?
TheBat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
prole@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It’s hard to believe that there was a point in my life where I could have read that article and understood it for the most part.
Now it might as well be hieroglyphics. Like I can see that symbol is an eye, and that one is a bird, but don’t ask me what that shit means.
oce@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Thanks. I wonder why I didn’t hear about him in thermodynamics but did in electromagnetics, maybe I forgot.
JayDee@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Material phase changes are like a cheat code for humanity. Reusable chemical handwarmers are also black magic. You just click a metal plate inside and all of a sudden it’s a hot solid.
NightHawkInLight made a video showing how you can mix two different salts together and it’ll create a packet that stays at 65 degrees for hours.
prole@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Who needs magical thinking when you have thermodynamics?
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
You are literally pumping hot outside.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 months ago
While utilizing the physics of pressurized coolants that prefer to be gasses around your house.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
so, magic.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 months ago
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
And you can reverse the process, pumping heat inside instead, even when it’s freezing outside! Magic, I tell you.