There's No Such Thing As Cold
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You've felt cold before. Sometimes it's cold outside. But what if I told you that "cold" isn't real? There's no substance or quantity called "cold" in science. We can't measure the amount of "cold" in something. Instead it's about what's NOT there. In this week's video, learn the difference between heat and temperature, why a wind makes us feel colder, and what it's like to live as a mass of jiggling atoms. This is the physics of cold
Cool PBS NOVA episode on the search for absolute zero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jSv8PDDwA
Richard Feynman on jiggling atoms: http://youtu.be/v3pYRn5j7oI
The movement of atoms in a wind: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem03/chem03448.htm
Why a breeze feels cool: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/72163/why-does-a-breeze-of-wind-make-us-feel-cooler
Density of the interstellar medium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_medium
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