{"id":171062,"date":"2023-09-01T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hypothesized-physics-demon-may-have-been-found-lurking-inside-our-cells"},"modified":"2023-09-01T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T15:22:19","slug":"hypothesized-physics-demon-may-have-been-found-lurking-inside-our-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hypothesized-physics-demon-may-have-been-found-lurking-inside-our-cells","title":{"rendered":"Hypothesized Physics \u2018Demon\u2019 May Have Been Found Lurking Inside Our Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hypothesized-physics-demon-may-have-been-found-lurking-inside-our-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 1,867, in an effort to test his thoughts on the emerging science of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/thermodynamics\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">thermodynamics<\/a>, physicist James Clerk Maxwell imagined <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maxwell%27s_demon\">an intelligent \u2018demon\u2019<\/a> sorting molecules between two containers based on their energy.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, a less diabolical version of Maxwell\u2019s fictitious demon may have been found.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study from researchers at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, proteins embedded in cell membranes called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ATP-binding_cassette_transporter\">ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) transporters<\/a> have features that echo Maxwell\u2019s demon, allowing them to sort substrates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1,867, in an effort to test his thoughts on the emerging science of thermodynamics, physicist James Clerk Maxwell imagined an intelligent \u2018demon\u2019 sorting molecules between two containers based on their energy. In 2023, a less diabolical version of Maxwell\u2019s fictitious demon may have been found. According to a new study from researchers at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171062","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}