Maxwell’s Demon: The Tiny Creature That Tried to Break Physics

A hot drink always cools down, never the reverse. But in 1867, James Clerk Maxwell imagined a tiny demon that could sort fast and slow particles and create hot and cold for free. It took physicists over 100 years to find the catch, and the answer is hidden inside every computer. 0:00 The cocoa that never warms up 0:52 What heat really is 1:42 The second law of thermodynamics 2:32 Meet Maxwell’s demon 3:44 Quiz: where’s the catch? 4:09 How the mystery was solved 5:37 Real experiments 6:31 Why it matters for computers If you had your own sorting demon for one day, what would you make it sort? Tell us in the comments! #physics #thermodynamics #maxwellsdemon #entropy #science