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The great Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin–one of the leading lights of the physics world of the 19th century and a man who worked deep and wide and over and under and around and through many different fields–contributed the following bit of unusual and interesting thinking. It came at the Swansea Meeting of the British Association (1880).