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Re: what flows?



On Thu, 5 Sep 1996 jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu wrote:

Jim Green says:
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substance. Shouldn't we also stop saying things like "energy flows"??? It
doesn't flow per se only stuff flows.

OK, I'll bite. Why do you say that only 'stuff' flows?

But if you have a quantity which obeys a conservation law, you then have a
"stuff," no? If you push it down in one place and it pops up somewhere
else, a "flow" has gone on between the two places.

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