| "body"> | | | | cold spots occur anywhere, even at places that have |
| Once again, TAPs has shown its stupidity by claiming | | | | no air conditioning. So that rules out Convection. |
| that cold spots come before the ghost enters a room. | | | | Next let's look at Radiation. Since air itself cannot |
| Now let me tell you what is really going on. | | | | radiate anything, it is impossible for air to "radiate" heat. |
| There are three kinds of heat transfer: | | | | Air can only transfer heat via Convection. |
| 1) Convection - Heat transfer involving air or other | | | | That leaves us with Conduction. Suddenly the |
| gases. Think of the warm air blowing out of your car's | | | | temperature of the air drops around you, but the air is |
| vent in the winter after the heater is turned on. | | | | not moving. You feel like the area around you just |
| 2) Conduction- Heat transfer by direct contact | | | | became cold. This would indicate that a ghost is |
| 3) Radiation - Heat from the sun. | | | | somewhere within that zone of cold air and heat is |
| Convection: The simplest way to think about | | | | transferring to the ghost from the air. One thing is for |
| Convection is to think about a fan blowing air around. If | | | | sure; Heat Transfer causes the cold spots. What is |
| you put a heat source in front of that fan then you | | | | probably happening is that the ghost is so low in |
| have convection. | | | | temperature (or no temperature at all); it cools the air |
| Conduction: If you take one red-hot piece of steel and | | | | around it by its very presence. So when you feel the |
| touch it to a cold piece of steel, the heat will transfer | | | | cold spot, the ghost is not coming later, it's already |
| from the hot steel to the cold steel. In other words, this | | | | there. |
| is the heat transfer that happens from direct contact. | | | | Is heat a type of energy? Yes it is. Is the ghost |
| Radiation: This form of heat transfer does not need | | | | intentionally pulling the heat energy from the air? It is an |
| direct contact or air to transfer its heat. Most of the | | | | impossible question to answer. The ghost could be |
| space between the Sun and the Earth is empty space | | | | extracting the heat energy for itself, or it may be |
| (no air). So why do we feel the heat of the sun on our | | | | simply a heat transfer by Conduction. |
| face? The answer is Radiation. | | | | There, we have solved one small piece of the |
| Now back to ghosts. Most reports of cold spots as | | | | paranormal puzzle. If we keep on doing this, then |
| related to ghosts are that there is a sudden drop in | | | | perhaps we will get a clear idea of what ghosts are |
| temperature. No "blowing air" seems to be involved, for | | | | made of. This simple analysis is a far better approach |
| example a central air conditioning. We know that these | | | | than TAP's continual pictures of dust particles. |