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(energy=ability to do work)



At 10:40 AM -0500 on 10/15/01, RAUBER, JOEL wrote

This seems perfectly acceptable to me, (except perhaps the energy=ability to
do work, for thermo reasons),

Isn't Quantum Mechanics another good reason to put a stop to this
'ability to do work' chestnut?
What conceivable WORK can the zero-point energy of an oscillator do?

I prefer to think of Work as being a PROCESS of changing energy from
one form into another.
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