Comment on ``Experimental Demonstration of Violations of the Second Law of Thermodynamicsfor Small Systems and Short Time Scales''
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The experimental verification of the fluctuation theorem by Wang et al. is explained in terms of a simple Langevin dynamics. This implies that the entropy consuming trajectories found by Wang et al. are fluctuations generated by a random force and do not violate the second law.
1 page with 1 eps figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Abstract was deleted, and the 1st paragraph was thoroughly revised
1 page with 1 eps figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Abstract was deleted, and the 1st paragraph was thoroughly revised