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“The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat, its temperature would be rendered at least one thousand times greater than that of red-hot iron, and the globe on which we tread would in all probability be rendered equal in brightness to the sun itself.”

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James Prescott Joule

James Prescott Joule, born on December 24, 1818 and died on October 11, 1889, was a British physicist renowned for his contributions to the fields of thermodynamics and electromagnetism. He is best known for his discovery of Joule's Law, which describes the relationship between the heat produced by an electric current passing through a conductor and the current, resistance, and time. more

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