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Re: Heat quanta: Take that, Jim Green.



Jack pesters me with the following:

|THE QUANTUM OF HEAT FLOW
|Physicists have known for over a decade that electrical
|conductance can be quantized: Under the right conditions it cannot

Jack, maybe I should just give up. (:-)

BUT remember that the theories of "heat (ugh) conduction" developed quite
independently from thermodynamics. There it might make some sort of sense
to talk about "heat (ugh)" as a substance, in thermo it clearly is
misleading at best.

But I always pay attention to my lawyer friends.

Jim



Jim Green
JMGreen@sisna.com
http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen