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Re: Energy



At 22:08 9/18/01 +1000, Brian McInnes wrote:
I don't usually repeat what has gone before in a thread
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Energy is a _property_ of a system

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Jim is not writing about an analogy; he is stating
facts about attributes.
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Some attributes (properties of systems) are involved in conservation laws;
others are not.
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Jim does not claim that energy behaves like colour
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Repeating an invalid argument ad nauseam does not make it more valid.

But it is not an invalid argument that energy and mass are properties of a
system and not substances
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Spot on , Jim
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"In that interpretive light, energy can be thought of as very stuff-like
indeed, and energy flow becomes necessary.
But as Jim pointed out, mass is itself a property and not a stuff. ...

Brian McInnes



I found the preceeding comparitive essay valuable. There was a moment of
cheer-leading late-on, but in large, I read it as an illumination on
the justice of two world models.

brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net> Altus OK
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