--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <<http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/details.asp?c=63>> > > Inventor spurns burns with red-hot invention
My physics is far enough in the past that I'm probably going to screw this up (I'm sure Dan is going to correct me) but this doesn't seem all that remarkable, and I think he's completely misunderstanding what's happening. You can heat (for example) the thermal protective tiles on the shuttle to thousands of degrees and then touch them with your bare hand, as I recall, because they absorb the heat and then _fail_ to radiate it, not because they cool immediately. It's the difference between sticking your hand in an oven at 400 degrees (safe, because the air will not transfer heat to your hand fast enough to burn it) and touching the metal _in_ the oven (not safe). The _temperature_ of the two substances is the same, it's the energy transfer that's different. Isn't that all that's happening here? ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
