Clash of terminology

[flutterbyz]

I was taught that cold cannot penetrate anything, what is in fact happening is heat migrating toward the colder object. The ground freezing is the movement of energy from the soil to the relatively colder air. Energy always moves from where there is plenty to where there is less, and cold is an absence of energy. And I was taught this with the

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[blagh]

I believe you have the right of it - frustrating to come across it in published work! Consider writing to the author/journal, if it's not too old?

[flutterbyz]

It's a U of T Masters thesis from two years ago, so I'm really not sure how it stands. It could have been addressed at his defense (which I would have found mortifying, if I were him. If I'm defending I don't want to be picked apart over details, especially if they're conceptual. I want that stuff to be rock solid). It hasn't been published by a journal as far as I know, it's just been made available to the whole WWW by U of T. At least it's not someone who's professional yet. But this is also the guy who sourced one of my supervisor's papers and spelled his name wrong every time. I'm kind of thinking if I do do my masters, I don't want to do it at U of T.