2012/02/26 by Andrew Das Arulsamy, Arulsamy, Andrew Das
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Protein Structure and Dynamics #Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.3028
openalex publication_date 2012/02/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Maxwell's demon was created with abilities to violate the second law of thermodynamics. But the demon always fell short of doing so because of the imposed restrictive condition that reads, the demon needs to do "work". Therefore, you can always preserve the second law by default. Here, we encounter the supernatural demon (without the above restriction) right at the melting point, and unambiguously expose why the demon is still doomed to fail for all time- and space-scales. This means that the second law of thermodynamics can never be violated. We develop an analytic strategy (based on Newton's third law) to properly analyze the entropy in a chemical system with respect to forward and reverse trajectories. We also explain the physico-chemical processes that are responsible at very short timescales.