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DigitalJack on Nov 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1989)

If you compress a spring, and then heat it, what happens to the stored inches?

gugagore on Nov 9, 2016 [–]

Can you clarify what your point is? I don't know how to answer the question, because springs don't store inches. If you are making a point about why the spring/inches analogy was bad, I'd like to hear it.

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