Claudiu's Journal

Bahaha just had a funny train of thought re Experiment: Can an externally heated object actually heat its heat source? .

If the aluminum foil with 95% IR reflection really would heat a heat source with its own heat, then all I have to do is line a small closet with aluminum foil and step inside it. My body heat will reflect off and heat me up more which would heat up more etc. But common sense wise, I ‘know’ it wouldn’t. I needn’t have bought all that equipment :smile:

And the pristine purity and perfection started to hove into view…

Then the thought: It’s really just about being OK with everybody being wrong about this. Pristine purity becomes more apparent…

Then: oh, everybody is just wrong about this!

Pristine purity now abounds in all its clarity and perfection. Then: “Haha there is indeed no greenhouse effect in actuality.”

And also then: just like everybody is wrong about actual freedom being an impossibility (ie “You can’t change human nature” and “life is a vale of tears”)! This is an even ‘bigger’ thing for everyone to be wrong about (AGW can come and go with still humanity continuing as it does.)

But then it fades and the feelings of doubt and anxiety and uncertainty start to creep in, would the aluminum foil closet really not work, how to calculate it etc. etc… …

Very interesting!!!

It really seems to be more about being willing to accept that so many people can have it wrong, than anything else … …

I’m not sure yet what prevents me from the seeing of it ‘sticking’, why I keep finding myself back in the fear, uncertainty and doubt…