On Jan 27, 1:31 pm, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]>wrote: > > > With the second law of thermodynamics, it seems like heat could only > > dissipate by heating something else up. > > The second law says that energy will tend to get diluted in space over > time, and heat conducting to other matter is one way for this to happen but > it is not the only way. Photons radiating outward in all directions from a > hot object is another way energy can get diluted. But among many other > things, you don't think photons, or logic, exist so I doubt this answer > will satisfy you.
It would satisfy me if I you had some examples, but I don't think that you know the answer for sure. If a vacuum is a good insulator (like a vacuum thermos) and a perfect vacuum, as far as I have been able to read online, is a perfect insulator. Electricity and heat pass from object to object, not from space to space. Please point out any source you can find to the contrary. What little I find agrees with vacuums being insulators of heat and electricity. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
