Maxwell Zombies: Mulling and Mauling the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Abstract

Over the last decade two new classes of thermodynamic paradoxes have been investigated at University of San Diego involving the recently identified phenomena of {\em epicatalysis} and {\em supradegeneracy}. These paradoxes add to a growing list of challenges to the second law of thermodynamics begun in the early 1990s.

Keywords

• second law of thermodynamics
• non-equilibrium
• epicatalysis
• supradegeneracy
• statistical mechanics
• laser