Light travels through space, radiant heat is just low wave length light
And the sun is radiant heat? How does it travel through the millions of miles of the darkness and coldness of space and maintain its heat? It makes more sense that the sun is much closer (not in outer space) and we are feeling the natural heat radiating from the not so far away sun uninterrupted by anything except clouds. Now I fully expect to hear 'retard' and no sufficient explanation.
If you go to costco they have these infra red heaters on display that use only 1000 watts if you walk by the display you can feel their heat 20 feet away even though it has to punch through air
The “coldness and darkness” of space is actually a tremendous advantage to long range heat transfer. Cold means lack of atomic motion. Eg there are very few atoms to get in the way and absorb the radiant light, huge plus.
Dark means there are few atoms scattering the light so it remains on a straight course outwards.
The earth is adjacent to a heat lamp with essentially nothing in the way of the projection of infra red light from the sun
>The “coldness and darkness” of space is actually a tremendous advantage to long range heat transfer.
Seriously?
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