(July 23, 2019 at 8:36 am)polymath257 Wrote:So if one heats up a closed system, what is the "force", and what are the particles involved.(July 22, 2019 at 11:15 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: But you can add just energy to the system. It is *something*.
No, you cannot just add energy to a system. To add energy, you have to apply a force. In other words, you have to interact with the system by some other system. Interactio between particles can, and does, change the dynamic properties of the particles involved. This includes energy and momentum, for example.
Energy is a property of the particles, not something that can be separated from them. Energy doesn't exist as a 'thing in itself', but solely as a property of such things: quantum particles.
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