In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Wed, 10 May 2006 11:47:46 -0400: Hi, [snip] > > >Robin van Spaandonk wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Read the last paragraph. :) >> >> http://www.physorg.com/news65961016.html > >But they're "converting" brownian motion to linear motion by pumping >energy in, in the form of laser light. > >Off hand, it doesn't _sound_ like anything in the system is even >potentially OU.
Probably not unless the laser light can reflect eternally off perfectly mirrored surfaces in a loss less optical resonant cavity, which may be the reason they don't expect OU any time soon. :) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
