Re: heat is a form of energy

["JACK L. URETSKY (C)1998; HEP DIVISION, ARGONNE NATIONAL LAB ARGONNE, IL 60439" <JLU@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

Hi all-
        Leigh writes:
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>        After the touching, I can feel the hotted copper block getting
> less hotted and the cold copper block getting more hotted.  The picture
> that leaps into my childlike mind is when I poured water from a full glass
> into an empty one.  I could see and feel the wet in the full glass and
> the dry in the empty one, just like the hot from the hot block and the
> cold from the unhot block.  In other words, I could practically feel the
> hot flowing.

This would seem to associate the amount of hot with temperature alone,
would it not?
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        If temperature is the grown-up name for hot, then you are
absolutely right.  I thought that temperature was something you did
with one of them thermometer things.
                                Regards,
                                        Jack


        "I scored the next great triumph for science myself,
to wit, how the milk gets into the cow.  Both of us
had marveled over that mystery a long time.  We had
followed the cows around for years - that is, in the
daytime - but had never caught them drinking fluid of
that color."
                Mark Twain, Extract from Eve's
                Autobiography