Comment by dbrans
Source Nature Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52047-5
Source Nature Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52047-5
It seems to me that the authors are pretty cautious.
They don't claim "we found a scalable way to violate the second law of thermodynamics", but instead make very specific claims about what they measured, and that they produced 94 nano-Watts per square centimeter. They don't even mention entropy.
This feels more like they know exactly how unbelievable their results sound, and that they are very careful to not overstate anything.
Nature Communications... a good journal but not where I would expect them to publish what appears to be (if I'm not misunderstanding- and I probably am/must be) the most surprising experimental result in the history of physics