On 3 June 2014 09:41, IVP wrote: > ... > > It is possible that if you took a broken egg and put in a blender, it > will re-form into a complete egg, but the chances of that happening > are vanishingly small. The most likely outcome is more disorder > Maxwell's demon -> WiebelRohr / Hilsch tube / Ranque-Hilsch / Vortex tube .... cooling (and heating) Fried eggs out one port, frozen ones out the other :-) -> Black hole. Russell The Wirbelrohr's Roar: A Thermodynamic Curiosity M. P. Silverman [Adapted from M. P. Silverman, And Yet It Moves: Strange Systems and Subtle Questions in Physics (Cambridge 1993), revised and reprinted in A Universe of Atoms, A http://www.trincoll.edu/~silverma/toys_and_experiments/wirbelrohr.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirbelrohr https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=3Dwirbelrohr&tbm=3Disch&tbo=3Du&source=3D= univ&sa=3DX&ei=3DdTWOU9X2OMn5kgWvk4DIBg&ved=3D0CEAQsAQ&biw=3D1920&bih=3D103= 2 *http://amasci.com/amateur/wirbel.html <- Good * http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=3D-Er5pIsYe_AC&pg=3DPA9&lpg=3DPA9&redir_= esc=3Dy#v=3Donepage&q&f=3Dfalse <- fried eggs mentioned :-) http://www.rexresearch.com/ranque/ranque.htm http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak7/fze/AKE_Archiv/DPG2002_undfrueher/DPG2002_u= f_Vortraege/DPG2002_AKE3.2_Keller_Waermerohr.pdf --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .