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it is worth the 100-year effort it will take to reform our usage if it is in
some sense
more correct or pedagogically preferable.
This will not take 100 years. Heat has been used as a noun, in the modern
technical sense, for about 200 years without interruption. The attempt to
make it not a noun is quite recent and never succeeded.
The folks who publish (and publish in) The Physical Review don't have a
problem with using heat as a noun. The query
http://www.google.com/search?q=heat+site%3Aaps.org
returns 4600 hits. Take a look. Count their votes.