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Zhimbo
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Message 91 of 221 (396735)
04-21-2007 9:39 PM
Reply to: Message 90 by ArchArchitect
04-21-2007 9:16 PM


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I was wondering.. Is it a scientific, proven fact that temperature does not exist at sub-atomic levels, or is it an assumption. I do not understand how there can be temperature existance at a certain level, but not at a sub-level.
It doesn't have to be "proven", it's true by definition.
Temperature is a measure of the energy of *moving atoms*. Within an atom, there are no little atoms moving around.
Similarly, the inside of a hydrogen atom in a water molecule isn't "wet", as "liquidness" is a property of large numbers of molecules interacting with each other.
Yours is a very common difficulty in understanding heat and temperature, actually, so you have a lot of company.

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Zhimbo
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Message 93 of 221 (396755)
04-21-2007 10:15 PM
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04-21-2007 9:44 PM


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So then the amount of heat is directly proportional to the speed of the atoms?
Bingo. Well, it might be better to say the heat *is* the energy of the moving atoms, and the temperature is proportional to the speed of the atoms.

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