From: Spike Jones (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 21:19:56 MDT
Doug Jones wrote:
> I don't want to go chasing down the numbers right now, but I'm very,
> very certain that the vast majority of earth's internal heating is not
> tidal...
I don't have a URL currently, but memories from my college days
is of Lord Kelvin demonstrating back in 17something something that
most of the heat in the earth is due to some other energy source
besides gravitational collapse and tides, thus anticipating the discovery
of radioactivity by over a century. spike
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