/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.1805165]

Hey ducklings,
how come when there's a breeze whizzing around you, you feel less of the heat (imagine sun rays trying to pierce you).

[Anonymous No.1805170]

Wind chill.

[Samefag No.1805180]

Because of light having wave particle duality. Usually it acts like a wave, so when you're at the beach there's a lot of waves so you get more sun waves so you get burned. When you're away from the beach it acts like a particle, so the particles of air (phlogiston and aether and all the other elementary gas particles) are able to knock the light away from you. This is why even on a windy day you still get sunburned on the beach, because particles can't knock waves out of the way.

[Anonymous No.1805188]

Two reasons.

Your body loses heat to the surrounding air. As it does so, that air warms up, and becomes less effective at cooling the body. A breeze refreshes that warm air adjacent to the body with cooler air.

Evaporative cooling. Similar to the above. A fine layer of moisture on your skin evaporates, drawing heat from your skin in the process. If the air were not moving, the air next to your skin would become saturated (effectively more humid) and the moisture on your skin would evaporate more slowly. So a breeze improves evaporative cooling, too.

[Anonymous No.1805205]

You sweat to cool off because it causes evaporation. Even when your not sweating your skin is releasing moisture and cooling you off. Wind facilitates this.

Also most clothing is made to keep you warm by trapping air that's been warmed up by your body heat in the fabric or by keeping pockets of warm air close to your body. A strong breeze can blow through the fabric replacing warm air with cool air.

[Anonymous No.1805211]

>>1805180
ok man, cool.
still, I'm wondering why it acts like a wave at the beach and like a particle elsewhere?

[Samefag No.1805231]

>>1805211
The waves induce the wave-particle dual nature of light to shift towards the wave side, just like electromagnetic induction. Virtual photons from the waves induce the real photons of the light to behave more like the stuff that emitted the virtual photons (ie, the waves).

When you're not at the beach, the light isn't entirely not a wave, or entirely not a particle. It has enough solid particle nature to it, such that it can be affected by particles of phlogiston impacting it.

[Samefag No.1805238]

>>1805231
forgot picture.

Remember, light is in equilibrium. Neither waves nor lack of waves will shift light all the way to wave nature or particle nature. It's still got both inside it.

[Anonymous No.1805287]

>>1805188
>>1805205
>>1805231
thanx guys