To: RightWhale
Boyle also lived during the 17th century, before any good understanding of what energy was had developed. Heat is just a form of energy. And the fact that heat or energy had no impact on Boyle's Law doesn't mean that it didn't exist in gases. Boyle wasn't even claiming (so far as I know) to be describing everything about a gas that there is. He was just describing an interrelationship between certain qualities of the gas.
45 posted on
02/05/2006 3:13:44 PM PST by
inquest
(If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
To: inquest
Same for Newton. Energy is new, and powerful, and has nothing to do with time or space.
48 posted on
02/05/2006 3:15:35 PM PST by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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