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From:
William Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 March 1860
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
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Faraday Project
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Reads JH's earthquake article and believes the effects of the transferences of matter of which JH speaks must be very small. Discusses the dynamical theory of heat. Will send to JH volume WT is editing.
Replies in detail to JH's objection to explaining the retardation of the earth's rotation as due to tidal friction, JH having urged that this effect should be analyzed in terms of momentum rather than of vis viva [kinetic energy], as WT maintained.