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From: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Thermodynamics / Statistical Physics
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Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 15:31:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 26 15:31:57 1986
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Reply-To: torek@zippy.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Organization: University of Michigan, EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
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Summary: 

Heat is too the same thing as its microphysical realization, and it was
even 200 years ago.  What are different are our *ideas* of temperature and
mean kinetic energy.  Pardon my naive realism, but the idea of a thing
and the thing itself are different.

--Paul Torek							torek@umich