Sunday, February 26, 2006

Is it just me or can our bodies only feel cold? By this I mean if one part of our body is warm and the other is cold, the cold will override the warm. Here's an example. Stick one hand in a glass of freezing cold water and the other in a glass of warm water. Leave them there for a little while and then take your hands out and touch them together. Does your warm hand feel the cold of the other, or does your cold hand feel the warmth of the other? My money is on feeling the cold. Could this possibly be because warm always goes to cold, high always goes to low, order goes to disorder, enthalpy to entropy? Probably . . .

2 comments:

Moose said...

Possibly it's because the cold water has numbed the nerves in your hand, thus the only feeling you get is from the hand that was in the warm water.

Jimmy said...

Ahh, but now take that same cold hand and touch it to another person's hand that is warm and you feel their heat (in a non skinky sense).