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systems--like rail cars--that have internal structure and
Totally inelastic collisions *always* involve dissipation....it is only
are, therefore, capable of storing internal energy that *can* have
inelastic collisions. As I recall, some of the earliest evidence for
quarks was the observation of inelastic scattering of electrons off of
nucleons. This observation was taken to imply that the nucleon was able to
dissipate energy into internal modes that would not exist if it did not
have structure.
John Mallinckrodt