Demon (disambiguation)

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Demon or daemon stands for:

  • Demon , a supernatural being
  • The Demon , an opera in four acts by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein

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Thought experiment:

  • Descartes' demon , a thought experiment from epistemology, see Genius malignus
  • Laplace demon who, according to classical physics, could calculate the past and future of the world
  • Maxwell's demon who, in contradiction to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, could create a temperature uneven distribution out of nothing

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