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the lazy synonym for energy that won, sprawling everywhere life refuses to stay still
means the energy transferred between things because they differ in temperature — and, loosely, the sensation or state of being hot.
from From Old English hǣtu, the abstract noun built on hāt, 'hot,' both reaching back to a Proto-Germanic root *haitaz that also gave German heiß and the chilly-sounding 'hot' itself. The same family is possibly a cousin of words for 'burning' and even 'fever' across the old Germanic tongues — a cluster of warmth-words that all trace to the simple sensation of something too warm to touch.
- always loses
- every machine bleeds energy as waste heat
- absolute floor
- motion stops entirely at minus 273 degrees Celsius
- flows one way
- hot to cold, never spontaneously back
- body furnace
- humans radiate roughly a 100-watt bulb constantly
- feels like touch
- you sense flow, not temperature itself