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dmarquis on May 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: "A calorie is a calorie" violates the second law o...

Its a good first approximation so to a physicist it might as well be true.

daoudc on May 20, 2011 [–]

Ouch. Yes, I clearly remembering being taught that Physics is approximation.

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