Quantum thermodynamics attempts to bend the rules - Nature

[gary]

In a 1 Nov 2017 article (https://www.nature.com/news/the-new-thermodynamics-how-quantum-physics-is-bending-the-rules-1.22937)in Nature, Zeeya Merali reports on how
experiments in quantum physics at the University of Oxford are
bending the laws of thermodynamics.




Article here :-
https://www.nature.com/news/the-new-thermodynamics-how-quantum-physics-is-bending-the-rules-1.22937

[Shiraz]

thanks for posting gary.

so the unassailable laws of thermodynamics are also turning out to be based on weird stuff at the microscopic level - fascinating. This sort of physics is way beyond my pay grade, but does this add one more indication that the whole universe is sitting on a bedrock of information content?

Modern society seems to me to mirror this at a macro level - information (and its manipulation) is fast becoming the basis for human existence.

cheers Ray

[multiweb]

Does this mean in future we'll be able to tap into other energy sources? Freebie?