...is undoubtedly true as long as we can deal with bodies only in mass, and have no power of procuring or handling the separate molecules of which they are...attributes are still as essentially finite as our own, wpuld be able to do what is at present impossible to us. For we have seen that the molecules in a vessel...

...perceptible. And so he remarks : " This law is undoubtedly true as long as we can deal with bodies only in mass, and have no power of perceiving or handling...which they are made up. But if we conceive a being," — and here we are introduced to the ' sorting demon' — " whose faculties are so sharpened that...

...made up. But if we conceive a being," — and here we are introduced to the ' sorting demon ' — " whose faculties are so sharpened that he can follow every molecule in ita course, such a being, whose attributes are still as essentially finite as our own, would be able...

...is the second law of thermo-dynamics, and it is undoubtedly true so long as we can deal with bodies only in mass, and have no power of perceiving or handling...he can follow every molecule in its course, such a 1 Theory of Heat, 3rd ed. p. 308. Longmans, 1872. being, whose attributes are still as essentially...

...is the second law of thermo-dynamics, and it is undoubtedly true so long as we can deal with bodies only in mass, and have no power of perceiving or handling...he can follow every molecule in its course, such a 1 Theory of Heat, 3rd ed. p. 308. Longmans, 1872. being, whose attributes are still as essentially...

...is the second law of thermo-dynamics, and it is undoubtedly true so long as we can deal with bodies only in mass, and have no power of perceiving or handling...the separate molecules of which they are made up. Put if we conceive a being whose faculties are so sharpened that he can follow every molecule in its...

...special conditions. In illustration of these he supposes the existence of a being, or demon as it were, whose faculties are so sharpened that he can follow every molecule in its course and who can accordingly discriminate between the fast -moving and the slow-moving molecules in a gas....

...thermodynamics, and it is undoubtedly true so long as we can deal with bodies only in mass and have no power oi perceiving or handling the separate molecules of which...conceive a being whose faculties are so sharpened that he e follow every molecule in its course, such a being, whose attributes are still essentially finite...

...is the second law of thermo-dynamics, and it is undoubtedly true so long as we can deal with bodies only in mass, and have no power of perceiving or handling the separate1 molecules of which they are made up. But if we conceive 1 My ¡ulics. a being whose faculties...

...including wireless telegraphy, are due, thought that he had found a way out of the difficulty. He conceived a being whose faculties are so sharpened that he can...follow every molecule in its course. Such a being, known in physics as Maxwell's Demon, could sort the molecules so as to allow the swifter ones to go...