On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joshua Cude <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Except the fundamental physics, and the fact that a 30 L poorly insulated >>> vessel of water cannot stay at boiling temperature for 4 hours. >>> >> >> It most certainly can, if it weighs 100 kg, and consists in part of fire >> brick, or something similar, and starts out at 500 or 600 C or hotter . . . >> > > If it had started out at that temperature, when the observers picked it up > to weight it, they would have felt the heat. No matter how good the > insulation is, this cannot be hidden. > > They weighed it before the warm-up period.
