Re: Heat and Energy

[Jim Green <JMGreen@SISNA.COM>]

> Is Carnot's concept of heat no longer valid?  These comments by Carnot
> certainly sound like a commitment to energy conservation.  From what I
> have been reading on the net here it sounds like this is not the current
> thought pertaining to heat.  When did Carnot's concept of heat become
> not valid?

If all mariners years ago believed that the earth were flat and then
someone came along and did an experiment that showed that the Earth is a
spheroid, does that define the time when the Flat Earth ideas were
invalid?   Were they not invalid all along?

BTW it is not clear that Carnot ever did formulate a theory of "heat" for
himself.  There is some evidence that he agreed with the traitor Rumford.

Jim Green
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