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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I asked the same question a while back with the earlier ultimate blackness and got a similar response.
what do you mean warm?


11 posted on 09/14/2019 10:15:46 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

In reference to warm: I think the poster means is it warm since it is capable of absorbing virtually all of the impinging energy.


12 posted on 09/14/2019 10:21:18 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: mowowie

The principle of conservation of energy. When a black body absorbs light the energy in the photons does not cease to exist. Loosely speaking, it is converted to random, disorganized mechanical energy, in other words, heat. Think of a black car on a hot day.

The heat is converted back to electromagnetic energy according to Stephan-Boltzman’s law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_constant

Sunlight warms the surface of the earth (which does not absorb all wavelengths, much sunlight is reflected back into space), and air cools the surface of the earth, or rather, the surface of the earth warms the air.

The mechanisms that allow heat in the atmosphere to be radiated back into space are at the heart of the global warming debate.


35 posted on 09/14/2019 11:22:25 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ( Schumer delenda est.)
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