Report, if you have a problem with this page“ The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat, its temperature would be rendered at least one thousand times greater than that of red-hot iron, and the globe on which we tread would in all probability be rendered equal in brightness to the sun itself. ”
James Prescott Joule
From : The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule - Volume 1
