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SV: Capacity of the brain

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Fri Oct 22 17:44:38 EST 1999


Bill Todd wrote:

> If heat in a substance does in fact propagate via the interaction of
> particles and EM fields, it's hard to see how it could do so at a
> speed
> faster than c.

Precisely.  He is taking an equation used in one area of approximation,
using it in a situation where the assumptions required for that
approximation are no longer valid, and then professing to have found
some new physics because the equation behaves strangely.  Well, no
kidding.

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