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how do you do ladies and gentlemen and
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boys and girls and mothers and fathers
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and people I'm Julia Suna Miller and
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physics is my business and we come once
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more to the subject of heat energy
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transfer in an earlier program I talked
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about heat energy transfer by conduction
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and then I talked in another program
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about heat energy conduction by the
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mechanism of
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convection and let me remind you that
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for conduction we have say a metal rod
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nothing goes no stuff moves very far
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energy is what goes but in the case of
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thermal energy transfer by convection we
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had the actual motion of stuff like hot
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air and hot liquids and stuff so in
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these two we had
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transfer where there was something now
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we come to heat energy transfer by the
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mechanism of
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radiation and this is a puzzling sort of
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thing because it works best as I like to
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say where there ain't nothing for
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example the heat energy of the of a star
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called the Sun comes mostly through
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empty space so radiation consider the
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following quite a marvelous thing to
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contemplate here I have an incandescent
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lamp and I'm going to excite it
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momentarily that is connect it and
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energize it so it burns it lights now
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watch what I'm going to do I'm going to
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connect
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it put my arm here and I felt it hot
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right away but that is still cold that's
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a marvelous thing so the radiation from
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that lamp reached my arm over this
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distance of a foot which isn't very far
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because this radiation travels at the
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velocity of light which is about 186,000
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miles per second so it didn't take very
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long to get to my arm still the glass
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did not have enough time to be thermally
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excited and to warm up as we say so my
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arm was warmed by
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radiation another
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demonstration several programs of mine
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and this one also have opened with this
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little
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radiometer and I am led to say to you
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that although this is a commonplace
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little device would you believe it it
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has not yet been thoroughly understood
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so I invite you to go to the physics
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literature and read about it there have
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been at least a thousand notes in the
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journals written about this but I will
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say a word about it I am covering it
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from the radiation from the lamps in the
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studio and when I remove my hands we
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will find that its speed has slowed down
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very very much then when I expose it to
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the radiation its speed will pick up now
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the veins in this little rascal are very
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light and blackened on one side and
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shiny on the other and if you look
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circumspectly at its method of rotation
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you will find that the black faces
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always Retreat from you the Observer now
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I'm going to take my hands away look how
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slow it is and look look look look how
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much faster faster faster it's going
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very much faster and the black faces are
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retreating now I have another one here
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and this one isn't going
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well I excited a little mechanically
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that one isn't going at all and I leave
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that as a puzzle for you why isn't this
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one
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turning why isn't it turning you see I
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consider raising paradoxes and dilemas
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and uncommon questions much more
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virtuous than just talking answers next
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demonstration which is a most
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unreasonable thing very unreasonable
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indeed reason is ravaged by this
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demonstration we will look first at
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three cans that I have I have one can
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two cans three cans and to begin with
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they are identical here they are here
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they are three cans from fruit juice let
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us say now one of them I left
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shiny the other one I painted on the
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outside black black and the third one I
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covered with a very thin layer of
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asbestos
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asbestos
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right shiny black
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asbestos now what am I going to do a
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wonderful
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demonstration
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I'm going to put some hot water in these
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to the same level in all three cans
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water water water and a cover if you
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wish with a hole in the cover and put a
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thermometer in each one a thermometer we
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will imagine that I have it right here
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here is a little stick which we
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understand is a
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thermometer now this is hot
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water 140° f say which is about the
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temperature which you take a bath now
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question I let these stay here on the
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tabletop and as time goes they cool off
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in what order do they cool or more
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exactly which one cools the fastest now
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nearly everybody in the world says that
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the black one cools the fastest because
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black bodies are good radiators now part
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of that is true but that answer is not
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correct I'm going to tell you a strange
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thing because I am a kind-hearted fellow
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I'm going to tell you but having told
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you the answer there is a greater
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mandate upon you to find out why it is
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so here it is the one that is covered
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with the asbest cools the fastest now
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who to Thun it that verb is the past PL
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perfect subjunctive of the verb to think
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who would believe that the one that's
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covered with asbest would cool the
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fastest and yet it does and I will give
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you a hint the program this day today
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this program Bears on the subject of
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radiation and that therein lies the
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secret
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so chiny can black can asbestos covered
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can thin layer very thin layer another
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commentary here I have a fourth such tin
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can and I have put seven layers of that
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asbestos seven and this can is brought
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down to the property of the shiny one
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which is an amazing thing
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absolutely No One Believes it next
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demonstration the case of the four
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thermometers notice the title I give it
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this is not a case for Sherlock Holmes
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but for juliia
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S problem I have here two identical
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thermometers to
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absolutely identical this one however is
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painted white at the bulb and this one
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is Painted
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Black now we will imagine we will
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imagine we will imagine that I go out
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into the sunshine into an open field
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with these two
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thermometers to begin with they read the
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same temperature we let a little time
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elapse certainly they show a rise an
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elevation a growing temperature question
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what exactly do we see now when I ask
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this very few answer it correctly but
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I'm going to tell you again because I'm
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kindhearted this one the black one shows
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an elevation much quicker faster sooner
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than the white one but after a while
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they come to thermal equilibrium with
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themselves and the surroundings and read
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the same
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temperature so having told you about a
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white thermomet and a black thermometer
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I'm going to raise another question here
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I have two identical
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thermometers and they are wrapped at the
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bulbs with cotton batting here you see
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the cotton batting is very tightly fixed
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here it is very puffy and loose and what
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I want to say about these is this that
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the same weight of cotton batting is
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here as is here so the same amount of
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stuff insulates both of them now I go
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out into the sunshine with these two
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thermometers and I ask you what do they
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show
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immediately and this is a wonderful
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thing and I'm just wondering if I'm kind
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enough in my heart to tell you because
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I've told you so much
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already uh I'll leave this for you to
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explore but let me say that this is why
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for example it is uh on occasion useful
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to wear clothes that are not too tight
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fitting and I have given you a hint
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about these two
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thermometers more on
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radiation the so-called Thermos bottle a
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Dua flask Dua D eew d e w a r d James D
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an
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Englishman how is this made well I'm
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going to show you it is a glass
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bottle with two walls an outer wall and
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an inner wall closely sealed tightly and
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the air between is taken out and if we
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could see very sharply there I'll play
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that to the camera there is a little tip
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of glass where the vacuum pump has been
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connected it's very difficult to see let
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me see if I can get another one oh yeah
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may be able to get this there it is
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there's the tip of glass sealed off with
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the air between mostly taken out now a
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question I like to ask ask you see these
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little pads of felt there's one there
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and one and one and I ask where are they
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they are not on the outside they are not
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on the inside no they are between the
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two walls of glass so as one might say
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they are on the inside of the outside or
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the outside of the
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inside now to more properly finish such
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a container we silver it also on the
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inside as well as on the outside why to
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minimize the radiation
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losses indeed as you know we can put
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some stuff in which is cold and it stays
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cold or we can put some stuff in which
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is hot which stays hot so we have talked
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about
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radiation and now I have a classical
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problem which you can investigate in a
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private way with much
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fun problem problem I call it the
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problem of the black coffee here here it
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is breakfast
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time breakfast time I pour me a cup of
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black coffee here I am pouring a cup and
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the here is the cup of black coffee now
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I am a user of cream in my coffee so I
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am on the verge of adding cream from the
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pitcher and let us say it's cold cream
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from the refrigerator I'm about to put
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the cream in the coffee when the phone
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rings
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ding now I have to go answer the
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telephone and I expect of course to be
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delayed a little time
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question I want to find my coffee as hot
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as possible when I come
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back should I then add the cream before
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I go to answer the phone or should I
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wait until I come back see they
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beautiful thing and I wonder if I should
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give you a hint the hint is this it
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depends also on on this business of
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radiation and I want the coffee to
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radiate away its heat energy at a lesser
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rate and therefore I should add the
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cream uh at some time uh in this
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discussion so you see ladies and
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gentlemen this business of thermal
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energy incredible and when one talks
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about radiation he has to have in mind
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the large scale view of our entire
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electromagnetic spectrum which includes
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the visible only a small part of the
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whole region the infrared radio waves
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electric waves ultraviolet x-rays gamma
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rays and as I am led to say who knows
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what is beyond and I thank you for
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listening
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I