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Re:Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study by donovanr on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:45PM (#11789862)
Right, but it's the 'every once in a while" part that I wonder about, i.e. the variance of that distribution. Maybe you could argue that since the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution is narrower the lower its mean, if kT is small then it's an exponentially tiny effect.
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Re:Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study by tiplus on Saturday May 28, 2016 @12:47AM (#11790610)
So yes, kT is small on average (does fluctuate) and it is also 1 kT per degree of freedom. So yes, in principle a few hundreds of atoms could randomly fluctuate in energy to create this effect. However, this is hyper unlikely. I would be suprisd if it happened once in the life time of the universe. Also consider that you cannot create Maxwell demons[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon

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