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Heat is made to flow from cold to hot

development2026-02-17

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Researchers flipped the thermodynamic arrow of time in a crotonic acid molecule, making heat flow from cold to hot, a step toward thermodynamic computing, while Micron began mass production of a 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 SSD.

Reported metric: 28 GB/s

Reporting date: 2026-02-17 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 17, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Heat is made to flow from cold to hot
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-02-17
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-17-arrow-of-time-flipped
Claim: Researchers flipped the thermodynamic arrow of time in a crotonic acid molecule, making heat flow from cold to hot, a step toward thermodynamic computing, while Micron began mass production of a 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 SSD.
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- Welcome to February 17, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-17-2026
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