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COMMENT ON: Phlogiston Theory, Negative Weight And Others
EliudGonzalezNunez Started conversation Apr 2, 2006
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1 ----- Your piece is good-enough to demand comment. You understand this, but I don't. Here are some silly-questions:
2 ----- WHAT DOES "confused heat with combustion" MEAN? A layman-reader will think the two are pretty-much-alike.
3 ----- ISN'T "changes in temperature are due to the transfer of an imponderable fluid, invisible and weightless, called caloric" PRETTY-MUCH THE SAME AS "vibrations of particles in a solid, liquid, gas and other states of matter"? IF-NOT, WHY-NOT? To an ordinary-person, it's just as imponderable to think of vibrations producing heat as it is to think of something-invisibly-weightless producing it.
4 ----- The teaser at the end could be improved by a-side-reference to Einstein's gravitational-theory.
5 ----- Personal-and-unnecessary-comment: the use of "!'s"; it's accepted-EXCLAMATORY-form, but it jars. It's like pointing unnecessarily. It's almost like using CAPITALIZATION for emphasis, or incessantly- needless paragraph-numbering.
6 ----- Not all dieters lose weight during exercise, some'a them, instead, gain weight; maybe The Phlogiston theory could be revived, so that its negative-weight could explain it all away and stop them from flogging themselves so much..
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