{"id":10841,"date":"2014-05-01T06:55:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10841"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:57","slug":"nanoparticles-found-to-violate-second-law-of-thermodynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/nanoparticles-found-to-violate-second-law-of-thermodynamics","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticles found to violate second law of thermodynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/author\/heidi-hoopes\/\" rel=\"author\">Heidi Hoopes<\/a> \u2014 Gizmag<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It may be a little late for April Fool\u2019s, but some skepticism is nonetheless warranted when reading that researchers have shown nanoparticles to disobey a fundamental law of physics which dictates the flow of entropy and heat in, it was believed, any situation. Specifically, researchers from three universities theoretically proposed then demonstrated that a nanoparticle in a state of thermal non-equilibrium does not always behave as larger particles might under the same conditions, with implications for various fields of research.<\/p>\n<p>The second law of thermodynamics is the one that makes perpetual motion machines impossible. It states that the entropy \u2013 the measure for the disorder of a system \u2013 of any isolated system cannot decrease spontaneously, with the system evolving towards the state of maximum entropy (favoring disorder). The team has shown that a nanoparticle trapped with laser light temporarily violates this law. This seeming violation of universal law is transient, something that the researchers first derived as a mathematical model of fluctuations expected at the nanoscale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/nanoparticles-violate-law-thermodynamics\/31491\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heidi Hoopes \u2014 Gizmag It may be a little late for April Fool\u2019s, but some skepticism is nonetheless warranted when reading that researchers have shown nanoparticles to disobey a fundamental law of physics which dictates the flow of entropy and heat in, it was believed, any situation. Specifically, researchers from three universities theoretically proposed then [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47118,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions\/47118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}