...and you couldn't even come up with
one to get the ball rolling?
The differential equations of the propagation of heat express the most general conditions, and reduce the physical questions to problems of pure analysis, and this is the proper object of theory.
~ Joseph Fourier,
Analytical Theory of Heat
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Heat, like gravity, penetrates every substance of the universe, its rays occupy all parts of space. The object of our work is to set forth the mathematical laws which this element obeys. The theory of heat will hereafter form one of the most important branches of general physics.
~ Joseph Fourier,
Analytical Theory of Heat
Adlai Stevenson said "When I feel the heat, I see the light." We must apply a rude and relentless heat to planners and engineers, slumbering in the dimcomfort of their profession.
~Andres Duany
"This is July of the bountiful heat,
Month of wild roses, and berries, and wheat."
~Albert D. Watson, "
July," 1917.
"Pity the poor creatures in warmer countries where the seasons never change, where summer is eternal and they never know the pain of waiting and the joy at last when summer comes."
~Ray Guy, humorist, "Catching Connors,"
That Far Greater Bay, 1976.
"The hound of the autumn wind is slow; he loves to bask in the heat and sleep."
~Peter MacArthur, "An Indian Wind Song," 1907
"A country of dry frost in winter, and of fruitful heat in summer, with numerous delightful climates in between — this is the rising nation, Canada."
~Wilfrid Campbell,
Canada, 1907.
Give me a harsh land to wring music from,
brown hills, and dust, with dead grass
straw to my bricks.
Give me words that are cutting-harsh
as wattle-bird notes in dusty gums
crying at noon.
Give me a harsh land, a land that
swings, like heart and blood,
from heat to mist.
Give me a land that like my heart
scorches its flowers of spring,
then floods upon its summer ardour.
Give me a land where rain
is rain that would beat high heads low.
Where wind howls at the windows
and patters dust on tin roofs
while it hides the summer sun
in a mud-red shirt.
Give my words sun and rain,
desert and heat and mist,
spring flowers, and dead grass,
blue sea and dusty sky,
song-birds and harsh cries,
strength and austerity
that this land has.
~ Ian Mudie [1911-1976]: This Land
The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse
The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that.... The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E) temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed.... [However] Revelations 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving...shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.
~From
Applied Optics, vol. 11, A14, 1972
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
~Richard Davisson
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
~Harry S. Truman
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