Re: [Phys-l] Star Trek

[Michael Porter <listmoe@gmail.com>]

On 18-May-09, at 1:33 PM, John Clement wrote:
> Actually there was a science fiction murder mystery where one of the
> clues was the temperature of the body, as I recall.  The murderer  
> changed
> the temperature by teleporting from a high location to a low one.  The
> gravitational potential was converted in to heat.


That was "A Kind of Murder" by Larry Niven. Interesting idea, but at  
one point he describes someone experiencing an increase in body  
temperature of seven degrees as a result of a jump. I'm wondering what  
the result of being seven degrees warmer *everywhere* in your body  
would be...

Mike


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Michael Porter
Colonel By Secondary School
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada