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Re: Question about light and heat

Bernard Cleyet wrote:

Even Feynman, et al. A huge blooper on p. 5-9 (vol. II)
(QUANDOQUE BONUS DORMITAT HOMERUS)

Yes, that's a blooper. Somewhat off-topic, though.

section 12-2 (vol. II) begins "The flow of heat; ..."

That's not a blooper. That's a systematic discussion
of the less-than-general case where it makes sense to
talk about heat-flow.

See http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/physics/thermo-laws.htm
for a discussion of why this is not the general case.