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Nearly all temperature is read electrically — but a steady voltage says nothing about heat. What reads temperature is the variance of a fluctuation: the thermal noise of a resistor, a primary thermometer. And that voltage is not random. 'Random' is a coarse-graining verdict about an untracked microstate, not a property of the wire. A proposal.
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