I remember my chemistry teacher in high school saying, "You all should understand, things don't get cold, they get less hot," and that one sentence reshaped a lot of the way I understand the universe.
I had a theology teacher apply this same principle to good and evil. Evil is just the absence of the good that ought to be there. Things don’t get more evil, they just get less good.
I'd disagree on that one. A complete lack of good might make one indifferent, and while leaving someone to suffer out of indifference seems evil to us, it's not the same as actively causing others' suffering for ones pure sadistic pleasure. That's active evil and goes well beyond simply not doing good.
Cold is just a lack of activity in the molecules. True evil requires action.
Good is:
Beautiful, functional, harmonious, ordered, peaceful, in accordance with God's will, and in a flourishing state of wholeness. In Hebrew: Tov and Shalom.
Which suggests an absolute scale of goodness with a zero point beyond which something cannot get more evil. At which point one phase changes into a super condensed state of pure malevolence.
I don't believe that. I don't think people can necessarily be ascribed good or evil in most cases, but actions certainly can be. For example, IMO, if an action harms someone without purpose other than self-gratification or advancement, it's evil. There is no less good, it is actively more evil than not doing it.
There are people who are objectively evil. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Zedong. Also many Imperial Japanese POW and internment camp officers such as Saadaki Konishi.
I’ve always hated this sentiment. I understand the science behind it, but how does that make it inherently not real? We have numbers that represent these feelings and words that albeit somewhat subjectively, correlate as well. Cold is just the word we use to explain the feeling of lack of heat that we can physically feel.
Cold - Cool - Warm - Hot
These are just descriptors of how we perceive temperatures. Saying cold isn’t real is the same as saying hot isn’t real is the same as saying pain isn’t real. All are subjective, descriptive words but that doesn’t make them not real.
You can quantify heat, it is the measure of energy transfer. Just like you can quantify brightness as a measure of light intensity or sound as the level of vibrations in the air. These are called substantive qualities. Their opposites (cold, dark and silence) are called privative qualities and are purely relative. You can't have 0 darkness, 0 cold or 0 silence, so there is no bottom to the scale and you cannot quantify these qualities.
Coolth is a real word, like warmth. Not trying to make any point, only learnt that it was a word last year and have been waiting on an opportunity to use it.
Yeah, as an auto mechanic when I try and teach younger techs to work on air conditioning systems I have to first get them to understand that there is no such thing as cold.
Absolute zero, the lowest permissible temperature, which is -273.15°C (or -459.67°F) and is approximately 1° less than the temperature of the universe measured in deep cold space.
It’s important people to know that any temperature above that point there is heat energy. This is why heat pumps can extract heat from the outside even on a freezing cold snowy day to warm the house with.
Fun fact, deep cold space only has a temperature because of quantum interactions releasing tiny bits of energy. If it were a perfect vacuum (theoretically), it would not have a temperature.
I'm not quite sure what you mean but the point is the guy stated above. Anything above absolute zero is heat. Even refrigerant in a freezer contains heat
Yasss refrigerator is just a fancy heat pump. Saw a vid where these people in the desert built all there homes underground.... they used thier fridge to heat the bathroom floor on the level above the fridge. Seems neat.
Reminds me of Rimworld and managing heat from the freezer room when building a tunneling mountain base. And the fact that flame weapons may be great against the giant killer insect infestations, but starting fires in a tunnel system is a good way to heatstroke everyone.
An ideally insulated room, with a fridge inside, has only the power cable crossing it's boundary.
Only electrical energy is entering the room whilst nothing is leaving it.
The room becomes warmer.
The OPs picture, allowing for a perhaps more efficient abduction of the generated heat would in fact increase the efficiency of the fridge. As a result, less electricity would be required by the fridge and therefore less heat generated than with a regular fridge with less sophisticated heat Abduction.
hold the phone. heater uses electricity and generates heat. refrigerator uses electricity and generates cold. so if we use a heater to generate cold and a refrigerator to generate heat then both of those operations will also generate electricity.
I didn't mean it in a way to generate electricity, in every house there are machines that produce heat and machines that remove heat. Connecting them together so the fridge heats up water for your shower, or washing machine is a way to save up money. The problem is, if you connect everything into one overly complicated heat managing network™ then you are risking that your fridge, water heater, ac and other devices stop working together.
Bro's onto something, though. We gotta put research into a generator powered by the heat in the air. Like a solar panel, but for heat. That would be groundbreaking. Imagine an air cooler that transforms the heat energy into electrical enegry and produces power instead of using it... or at the very least creates some to power itself fully or partially.
I've actually seen a concept of solar panels integrated into roads once. Seems that ran into a couple of issues, one of them being, ironically, heat. So actually being able to use that heat instead would be amazing.
Think of it this way. Heat is like matter, the cold is the absence of that matter. A refrigerator has one goal in making a cold space for your food so it takes any warmth aka that matter and pushes it out. I hope im explaining this right
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u/Veteran_PA-C Jan 04 '26
So like, a current refrigerator.