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A College Student Accidentally Broke the Laws of Thermodynamics

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Saying this college student broke the laws of thermodynamics is like a person watching a plane for the first time saying the plane is breaking the laws of gravity.

Anyone know anything about this or can evaluate this claim?

Seems like a major thing if it’s true that would inspire an entire new area research.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02865-1 (paywalled) and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384256048_Shape-Rec...

I don't know how the popular mechanics author came to the conclusion they did; the paper says nothing about breaking any laws of thermodynamics.

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