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Re: What Flows?



Hi all-

Jim Green says:

Heat does not flow.
Heat is not energy.
O.K. I guess that was easy for him to say. But consider the
following oft-repeated experiment. I hold one end of a length of
copper wire in my left hand. I apply a hot soldering iron to the other
end of the wire with my right hand. After a bit, I have a burn blister
on my left hand, so I terminate the experiment.

Question: Did anything flow in the wire from the soldering
iron to my left hand to cause the blister? If so, was anything
conserved in the flow process?
Regards,
Jack