The Hundredth Monkey: And Other Paradigms of the Paranormal by Kendrick Frazier

Author:Kendrick Frazier [Frazier, Kendrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-09-05T12:02:00+00:00

The secret to firewalking and many similar heat-defying stunts lies in the distinction between temperature and heat (or internal energy). This distinction is not a part of our commonsense notions, although all of us are actually familiar with it as part of our daily lives. For example, when we are baking a cake, the air in the oven, the cake, and the cake pan are all at about the same temperature. None of us would think for a moment before putting our hands into the hot oven air, but we know that we cannot touch the cake pan for more than an instant without being burned. Why is this? They really are at the same temperature. Why would the pan burn us and not the equally hot oven air?

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