Re: Roberts versus Lazio on "Overaveraging"

From: Greg Hennessy (greg.hennessy_at_tantalus.cox.net)
Date: 01/29/05


Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:20:22 +0000 (UTC)

In article <7gJKd.10374$B5.3390@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
Androcles <dummy@dummy.net> wrote:
> Why is the act of looking at the star "clearly" cooling it?
>
> Or look at a human being through night vision IR devices, perhaps....
>
> It isn't "clear" to me at all, since the source was radiating anyway.

Temperature is defined for a source in equilibrium. Pedantically
speaking, if the source is radiating, it does not have a temperature.



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