IT may interest some of your readers to know that the problem in thermodynamics, propounded by Mr. Blass in your number of August 29, has actually been put to the test. I pointed out Mr. Blass's ...

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Mechanical Engineering Professor and Director of the Center for Combustion and Environmental Research, John W. Daily will be publishing a book in December 2018 entitled, Statistical Thermodynamics: An ...

What if the thermal noise that hinders the efficiency of both classical and quantum computers could, instead, be used as a power source? What if computers could make use of the noise instead of ...