Re: What Flows?

[palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)]

> On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Leigh Palmer wrote:
>
> > > 2)  Can you tell me how it is that the cool object increases in energy with
> > > out saying the words "heat" and "flow"?  What is the detailed mechanism?
> >
> > Say that energy flows. Who cares what the "detailed" mechanism is? By
> > the way, I don't think you should ever say "internal energy flows".
> Isn't one of the powers of thermo that it is model independent, so the
> notion of "detailed mechanism" really is not an issue at all.
>
> cheers

Thanks; I am cheered - and cheering. I don't know why so many people
lose sight of the powerful elegance of classical thermodynamics. I
don't know how to shut off this discussion, either. Perhaps I was
wrong about perpetual emotion of the most intense kind!

Leigh