Cold Radiation
There is no such thing in Physics as "cold" - just lack of heat. Everything
radiates heat, even a block of ice, the intensity of heat radiation being
proportional to the 4th power of the Absolute Temperature (Stefan-Boltzmann
Law). So if a body is in cold surroundings it radiates more heat than it
gets back and so is cooled. You could look at that as "cold radiation"; all
this argument is really just one of semantics.
Ian Bingham,
Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.
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Thanks Ian,
Some sense at last :-)
Cheers, Alastair.
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