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tuckerman on May 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Where do space, time and gravity come from?

I didn’t look terribly long so I can’t find a reference, but I believe when Kelvin coined the term he used the daemon spelling

bardworx on May 6, 2022 [–]

Yes, the process was named after Maxwell's daemon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)

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