Reply to "Comments on 'Possible experiment to check the reality of a nonequilibrium temperature' "
A simple mechanistic interpretation of our proposed experiment is presented, which allows us to clarify the points raised by the preceding Comments by Hoover, Holian, and Posch [Phys. Rev. E 48, 3191 (1993) and Henjes [Phys. Rev. E 48, 3194 (1993)]