Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1031

Random taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath

January 13, 1957

The reason conventional physicists do not seem to distinguish the erg from the erg-second is because substantially there is none. In a continuing flow of energy through a period of time, there is no way of computing the total number of ergs except by multiplying the number of ergs per one second — that is, the number of erg-seconds per second — times the number of seconds contained in the period through which the energy acts.