Do biological molecular machines maximise performance by harnessing ‘demonic’ powers? In their new FQxI-funded paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11329), Matt Leighton, John Bechhoefer and colleagues investigated whether real-world molecular machines, such as kinesin, act as mini Maxwell demon engines. Read more on https://qspace.fqxi.org/news
Hunting for Maxwell’s Demon in the Wild: A New Paper by John Bechhoefer
Is physics saying that mathematical systems automatically have the property of self-movement?
In fact, mathematical systems don’t move themselves, or if they DO move themselves, then there had better be an acknowledgement they there must be an identifiable “thing” that produces movement in a mathematical system.
However, physics fails to deliver on this issue: what is the “thing” that produces movement in a mathematical system?