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IN a letter to NATURE (April 13) Lord Rayleigh makes a criticism on my suggested explanation of the well known difficulty connected with the specific heats of a gas. He considers a gas bounded by a perfectly reflecting enclosure, and says “the only effect of the appeal to the æther is to bring in an infinitude of new modes of vibration, each of which, according to the law (of equipartition), should have its full share of the total energy.”
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JEANS, J. The Dynamical Theory of Gases. Nature 71, 607 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071607a0
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