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Who wants to change the ideas? It is only a matter of naming things. The
concept of internal energy, and the idea that it can be changed by one of
two processes, heating and working (dE=Q+W), is well understood. Nobody
wants to change these concepts.
Note that dE on the left side is a noun (an energy incement). Therefore Q
and W must also be nouns. Unfortunately, Q was named "heat" when the same
name was already used for what we prefer to call "internal" or "thermal"
energy. For whose sake should this avoidable mental trap be tolerated?