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Gravitation and Thermodynamics

Nature volume 99, pages 84–85 (1917)Cite this article

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DR. TODD (NATURE, March 1) suggests that when one gravitative mass approaches another it acquires heat. This might occur when, as is usually (but not always) the case, the body moves up the gradient of potential; for then the energy of field displaced by the body would increase.

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SHAW, P. Gravitation and Thermodynamics. Nature 99, 84–85 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099084a0

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