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Challenges to The Second Law of Thermodynamics - Theory and Experiment (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
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Challenges to The Second Law of Thermodynamics - Theory and Experiment (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, 146
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The advance of scienti?c thought in ways resembles biological and
geologic transformation: long periods of gradual change punctuated
by episodes of radical upheaval. Twentieth century physics
witnessed at least three major shifts - relativity, quantum
mechanics and chaos theory - as well many lesser ones. Now, st
early in the 21 , another shift appears imminent, this one
involving the second law of thermodynamics. Over the last 20 years
the absolute status of the second law has come under increased
scrutiny, more than during any other period its 180-year history.
Since the early 1980's, roughly 50 papers representing over 20
challenges have appeared in the refereed scienti?c literature. In
July 2002, the ?rst conference on its status was convened at the
University of San Diego, attended by 120 researchers from 25
countries (QLSL2002) [1]. In 2003, the second edition of Le?'s and
Rex's classic anthology on Maxwell demons appeared [2], further
raising interest in this emerging ?eld. In 2004, the mainstream
scienti?c journal Entropy published a special edition devoted to
second law challenges [3]. And, in July 2004, an echo of QLSL2002
was held in Prague, Czech Republic [4]. Modern second law
challenges began in the early 1980's with the theoretical proposals
of Gordon and Denur. Starting in the mid-1990's, several proposals
for experimentally testable challenges were advanced by Sheehan, et
al. By the late 1990's and early 2000's, a rapid succession of
theoretical quantum mechanical ? challenges were being advanced by
C apek, et al.
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