Forget about it. This temp thing is all in the mind. If you did not have
a mind you would not mind the temperature.
Larry
PS Wind chill does affect inanimate objects. If you move the air away
from a warm area it will cool off. As the core of the object is warmer
than the surface, the warmth will radiate out, then that warmth is
transfered to the air which is then removed from the area of the object,
making the air surrounding the object cooler. Which must then again be
reheated to the surface temp of the object. Now eventuually the object
will cool to the air temp - it will fall a little below the air temp but
it will reach a point that it will get no colder. However- it will get
there a lot faster in moving air than in moitionless air, and isn't a
moving air mass what causes wind chill?? It is all relative temp and
density of material.
At this exact moment in time 1/17/00 10:25 AM, soavero@yahoo.com made the
profound statement:
>> cooling action. If this were not true, then humans
>> could not survive in
>> temperatures above 98.6 degrees.
>
>Of course - the point is that as the sweat evaporates
>and you produce more sweat to maintain your body temp,
>the PERCEPTION is that you are warmer.
>
>=====
>Ron Soave
>
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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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