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On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 13:00:10 -0700 (PDT) William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>
wrote a whole bunch of stuff.
Hi Bill,
I'll have whatever you're taking.
I enjoyed your rap very much. I
think you have confused a lot of things though. Linear sound (as we
studied it in the physics books, viz., Helmholtz, etc.) does not do work.
It is lost work. It is almost like turbulence in a fluid. Whatever is
done in one direction is undone in another.
Electricity IS work when it
crosses our system boundary. But, radio waves are lost work. When you
broadcast it, you lose it; and, you can't get it back.
Forget about
what the TV stations say during ball games. When they broadcast it,
they gave it up.
Mopping the floor ain't work except in so far as dirt
is actually moved, but not the rubbing.