# Maxwell's Demon - Why Information is Entropy

James Clerk Maxwell’s idea for violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Video also covers reconciling the information theory of entropy with the macro-state / micro-state definition of entropy. I originally made this video for my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky I uploaded it to Internet Archive to preserve it for future generations. All my videos on Internet Archive are available at the following link. https://archive.org/details/@eugene_khutoryansky?sort=publicdate

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 2018
- By: Eugene Khutoryansky
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/maxwell-demon)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/maxwell-demon?play=1)