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    ok...can there be such a thing as cold? (It will make sense in a couple more posts):cool:

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      CommentAuthorRot Bottom
    • CommentTimeSep 20th 2007 edited
     

    This depends on what you mean exactly.

    I'll make some educated guesses.

    - Cold, as in the temperature outside is relatively not warm, is, as the description implies, relative and so is not an absolute and therefore cannot truly exist. It is conceivable that some human would find even -30 with a 20 degree windchill "pleasant".

    - Scientists can assume "absolute 0" temperature. That. Is. Cold. So yes, it can exist.
    (edited to change attain to assume)

    - A "cold", as in a stuffy head, fever, body aches, runny nose, slimy tongue, fatigue does exist. It is a condition that is not truly being cold, but it is the name we've given it, in English.

    - Many descriptions of cold can exist. Temperature that exists that is uncomfortable, or the temperature of an object that is painful or malignant to contact, or the the way your aunt always acted: not crying at funerals, not caring if you got the job you always wanted, not even a GOD DAMN BIRTHDAY CARD ON YOUR 10th, 21st or 30th BIRTHDAYS! THAT BI... wait.. excuse me.

    So I think that yes, cold exists.

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    "Cold" is an subjective condition that has no place in science, similar to "hot." What does matter is the temperature of the system, and how much heat energy is present inside it.

    Scientists can not attain absolute zero. That number has been extrapolated from empirical evidence.

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      CommentAuthornyarfdude
    • CommentTimeSep 20th 2007
     

    Cold is simply the absence of heat. Cold itself doesn't really exist. (And as ED said, scientists have not been able to attain absolute zero.)

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      CommentAuthorPaulustrious
    • CommentTimeSep 20th 2007 edited
     

    1) Cold = opposite of hot (adjective)
    2) Cold = absence of heat (noun)

    Adjective:
    Cold and hot are relative interpretations. eg. There are cold spots on the sun.

    Noun:
    Cold is the relative absence of heat - compare with partial vacuum.
    Temperature is a measure of heat energy. There is no cold energy.

    Posted By: Rot Bottom

    It is conceivable that some human would find even -30 with a 20 degree windchill "pleasant".

    Welcome to Canada in Winter. They are strangely obsessed and proud of how cold it can get:

    Edmonton resident: It was -27 last night, pretty cold.
    Yellowknife resident: Call that cold? It was ... etc

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeSep 20th 2007
     

    And down the toilet of illusion goes your pseudo-intelligent question, Soccer. You can take the shades off now.

    Posted By: Rot Bottom

    THAT BI...

    You have a bisexual aunt? It's interesting that you'd announce that on the internets.

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      CommentAuthorPaulustrious
    • CommentTimeSep 22nd 2007 edited
     
    Posted By: GaSoccerMan

    It will make sense in a couple more posts :cool:

    The suspense is beginning to get to me.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeSep 24th 2007
     

    Yes, but there's no such thing as 'dark'.

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      CommentAuthorRot Bottom
    • CommentTimeSep 24th 2007
     
    Posted By: Paulustrious
    Posted By: GaSoccerMan

    It will make sense in a couple more posts:cool:

    The suspense is beginning to get to me.

    Me too.

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      CommentAuthorNI17EG
    • CommentTimeMar 11th 2008 edited
     

    Someone in Edmonton WOULD complain about it being -27. It got close to -50 with the windchill not that long ago here in Calgary .

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