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MY attention has been called to an ambiguous phrase in my recent paper1 on the above subject (NATURE, vol. xix. p. 460) which it is necessary to rectify. On page 461 is the sentence “Let us suppose now the excessive temperature to fall, or, in other words, the total energy to diminish.” This is meant as a supposition, not as a possible case. The imaginary rise and fall of temperature in the universe are given merely for the sake of aiding the conceptions of the actual facts, by affording imaginary cases to show what the effects would be if such cases were possible.
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PRESTON, S. Temperature Equilibrium in the Universe in Relation to the Kinetic Theory. Nature 19, 555 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019555b0
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