All this talk about stupid thermometers... Some thermometers are smarter than others. Why? When it comes to telling temperature they know what they are talking about. Some have higher margins of error; they may be off by 1/2 degree F. Others are right on. But then put one in an environment that is fluctuating between hot and cold rapidly and many thermometers can't cope. Therefore they are not that smart but the super accurate rapid detection model is an intelligent one.
Say the temperature is changing 2 times per second as a sine wave from -10 F to +10 F. But then the frequency doubles exceeding the thermometer's ability to physically keep up (it becomes a blur). The smart thermometer "sees" the frequency increase, knows the temperature is changing cyclically and changes its report to an AVERAGE reading. This is a smart thermometer. Going further we take our smart thermometers and immerse them inside of a fusion plasma. They all are vaporized except our same Super ACME Model X1117 thermometer rapidly grows a non-meltable material shell and changes its emission frequency until radio waves with the temperature reading are detectable outside of the plasma container. Really smart model. So then we decide OK let's try to measure the temperature of a black hole so we jettison the X1117 into the black hole and right before it passes the event horizon it converts itself into radially emitted neutrinos by sacrificing itself and emits one last gasp of a temperature reading with a prediction of what it thought it would be if it had kept going hoping someone, somewhere will hear. This is by far the most intelligent and dedicated thermometer. John ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
