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some of us think of heat as energy and then it would have to be conserved.
There was not much response to the issue of caloric thus far. Let me be more direct:
For members of this list what is the difference in your views/ideas/images between "heat" and "caloric"?
I get the impression that generally it is thought that they both are fluids -- or fluid-like -- of course if we thought about it a bit, we would have to say that the total amount of caloric is conserved universally and we usually don't think of heat as being conserved -- except that some of us think of heat as energy and then it would have to be conserved.
As far as I can see there is not much difference between Empedocles' "fire" (of air, earth, water, and fire days) and today's "heat"
We are quick to say that we _have_ changed, but it looks to me as if all we have changed are the words -- from fire to phlogiston to caloric to heat -- but not the thinking,
Please comment
Jim
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