Re: A question on inelastic relativistic collisions

["James W. Wheeler" <jwheeler@EAGLE.LHUP.EDU>]

There ought to be a covariant quantity whose timelike (or
timelike-timelike) projection is the temperature.  It would be a Lagrange
Multiplier for conserving the stress energy tensor in ensemble dynamics.
(THIS IS NOT THE WAY THIS IS USUALLY DONE)

On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, David Bowman wrote:

> Regarding:
>
> > I thought that temperature was a measure of the Internal Energy of a body.
>
> No, that's the mass.
>
> > The Internal Energy of a body is measured in the rest frame of the Center
> > of Mass of that body and therefore the Temperature of a body is measured in
> > that reference frame.
>
> This is true.
>
> David Bowman
> dbowman@georgetowncollege.edu