Re: Heat as an indestructible substance

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

"But they sent him to a mental institution (others were to become the discoverers)
..."

Not quite, like the kat, he had more than one life.  Read:

http://che.konyang.ac.kr/COURSE/thermo/history/1800b.html

bc



Pentcho Valev wrote:

> Jim Green wrote:
>
> > >  This did not happen in thermodynamics. Carnot's conclusion,
> > > which can be generalized as
> > >
> > > "An engine cannot absorb heat from a reservoir, completely convert it into
> > > work and

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> > At least in my part of the galaxy. <g>
>
> I disagree and agree at the same time. So far as heat "diffusion" and e.g. solute
> diffusion obey the same equations, speaking of a "moving" heat gives some
> advantages. However the damage is perhaps greater. In fact, what you say above is
> close to Robert Mayer's ideas expressed as he established the first law. But they
> sent him to a mental institution (others were to become the discoverers) so the
> idea that heat is ESSENTIALLY different from work remained. If Robert Mayer's ideas
> had prevailed, the second law would not have been established (at least so I
> think).
>
> Pentcho