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Posted on 08/01/2007 8:46:09 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
Because water is a good conductor of thermal energy, and the human body is made up mostly of water, so you’d cook the surrounding tissue too. Also, “cooked” tumors would tend to present health hazard in and of themselves.
This is why doctors use high-energy radiation on the form of gamma rays for surface cancers and charged particles for deeper cancers. They can directly impart large quantities of energy precisely where it is needed, inside the cancerous cells, without causing substantial damage to surrounding tissue.
Now there’s some fascinating science in those machines, I don’t care who you are. :)
Good for you
LOL
It is statistical. That is, there is a chance your cup of hot coffee will suddenly freeze solid and the cup will glow cherry red.
Nope.
Not a chance of that happening. The cup, the liquid, and the surrounding air will gradually come to thermodynamic equilibrium.
“Saw a steam turbine about 1975 that ran on water, made steam from the water with its own energy output, and condensed the steam to water so it could be used again.”
But then big oil took out a hit on the inventor and buried all his research, right? Riiiight.
Nope.
Not a chance of that happening. The cup, the liquid, and the surrounding air will gradually come to thermodynamic equilibrium.
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Fermi said all thermal phenomena are the disordered motions of atoms and molecules. Fermi rules in favor of statistics. There is a chance.
Some people get real tense about stuff we all learned in fifth grade and then we can get useable work from that by releasing the energy gradually in a controlled fashion.
They are on a micro scale, however, on a macro scale, the overall effect of all those seemingly random disordered motions are towards thermal equilibrium. On a macro scale there simply is not even a remote possibility of that hapening.
Sure, they all laugh and they will laugh until the entire atmosphere in their room suddenly leaves and goes to the moon leaving them in a vacuum where we cannot hear their laughter.
LMAO as I pet my little Shih Tzu Charlie.
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