>A physicist speaks of heat as a uniform and definite measure. This is the calorie, an amount of heat necessary to raise one gram of water from a temperature of one-Celsius degree from 14.5 to 15.5 degrees. Fortunately heat can be measured or else its existence might well be challenged. The concept of heat is captured by its common measurability. ...
Another interesting point about heat (or temperature) is that it is a measure of the
average energy per particle. Individual particles can (temporarily) have much greater or smaller energies. (I'll let you decide whether that is relevant for your analogy or not... No analogy is perfect, in the sense that some things will always be found that are similar, and other things, that are not.)
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
