Aggregate Heat
An accumulation of very small things: for example, the heat transmitted from let's say an ant in every instance of its putting down what is at the very thin end of one of six appendages or legs, shall we call it feet for the time being, as it makes its way across the surface of an open newspaper - except that only the instances where an ant foot touches the black ink of a newspaper shall the heat be measured and qualified to be included in the aggregate of things, in this case Ant Heat Transmission with the Ink Exception. We are on our merry way to coming up with a very small but very lovely number, when a fight breaks out in the household, two human voices are yelling at each other in the other room. What this means is that the dog goes crazy, because the dog goes crazy whenever humans get in a fight, but only when they are really fighting. We've tried this before, pretend-fighting, and the dog looked on with mild bemusement or even disinterest, and so it is that we are such bad actors that we can't even fool our dog. But when the fighting is real and the dog goes crazy, it tends to run about all over the house. The newspaper was on the floor, and the dog only stepped on just a small corner of it, but it is enough to send a message of alarm to the ant walking atop of it, and the ant goes crazy. Or rather, it starts running, all six appendages working together for its common purpose of I don't know what. Panic, perhaps. So the number of steps taken by the ant relative to the passing time increases in speed, but this also means that the ant makes its way off of the paper as quickly as it possibly can. Now we are unsure if the aggregate measure of heat is larger in this case, the case that happened, or if it would have been greater had the ant stayed calmly meandering the black and white splotches on the newspaper on the floor.
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