Save us all some time and simply go **** yourself, asshole.


On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:55:46 -0400, "Daniel J. Stern"
> wrote:

>On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 PJM > wrote:
>
>>>>> No, a material can not contain heat. Heat, as Threeducks said,
>>>>> applies only to thermal energy in transit. From Halliday / Resnick:
>>>>> Fundamentals of Physics, 3rd edition, Wiley 1988: Page 464: "Heat is
>>>>> energy that flows between a system and its environment by virtue of a
>>>>> temperature difference that exists between them"
>
>>>> That definition is bull****. It is wrong.
>
>> >No, that is your misunderstanding of thermodynamics. Heat is one way
>> >energy can be transfered from one object to another. For heat transfer
>> >to exist, you need a finite temperature difference between objects.
>
>> I'm too busy to play with the semantics. And that's all it is.
>
>Spazzing on about "semantics" is the mark of an idiot caught with his
>intellectual pants not only down, but torn and full of poo.
>
>But sure, fine, whatever, I'll play: You're right and the entire rest of
>the world is wrong. Here's a cookie. While I've got your omniscient
>attention, perhaps you can share with us your correct definitions of
>"green" and "wet" and "42"? I've been just slavishly adhering to the
>explicitly defined definitions for those terms, just goin' along with the
>rest of the world, but I'm sure you have more accurate definitions, so
>please elucidate!
>
>DS


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