From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Dec 04 1999 - 22:39:51 MST
> Michael M. Butler butler@comp-lib.org wrote:
> > "What is your temperature?" "Um, 3 degrees K, or three hundred degres F,
> > depending on how you look at it."
> Technotranscendence wrote:
> Wrong conversion! Michael probably means -370 degrees C (or -457 degrees
> F)... Had to nitpick!:)
The way I interpreted that is: in a near vacuum, it doesnt matter much
what the temperature is. The heat transfer from or to the few particles
present is very low compared to the heat transfer by radiation. If one
were in deep space with a pressure of 1 picotorr, the temperature
could be anything you wanted, but you wouldnt know the difference.
You would still radiate heat away. Doug Jones explained it in his
post.
To get a feel for what I am saying, take a grinder and grind some
steel. One can put ones bare hand in the shower of sparks and yet
feel no discomfort, even tho the sparks are hotter'n hell. Its because
there is so little mass there to conduct heat into ones skin. spike
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