reality of PE, was: Derive energy from angular KE of earth?

[Dan MacIsaac <Dan.MacIsaac@NAU.EDU>]

> > What terminology will you allow us to use without invoking the wrath
> > of
> > the semantics gods?
> >
> > Bob at PC

ha ha.

In perhaps a more fruitful discussion of the term energy,  I thought
that Gene Hecht's recent article on Nov03 TPT (freely available at
<http://ojps.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=PHTEAH&Volume=41&Issue=8>
) was an extraordinary example of a scholarly look at physics
language and conceptual development.  I thought of Jim when
I read it; it implies calor has mass :^)

See
 An Historico-Critical Account of Potential Energy: Is PE Really Real?
Eugene Hecht
pp. 486-493

Dan M

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