Message from @Happygrandad

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2019-07-04 22:16:39 UTC  

@Happygrandad Yes
But not a detector
A laser thermometer

2019-07-04 22:16:46 UTC  

yeah

2019-07-04 22:16:48 UTC  

Not that I spent a lot of time testing it.

2019-07-04 22:16:57 UTC  

alright you guys just flew over my explanation on why it's colder

2019-07-04 22:17:01 UTC  

laser thermometers measure the air temperature, not what it directly points at

2019-07-04 22:17:09 UTC  

like you guys are saying putting a piece of paper 10 or 20 feet above a thermometer will change its temperature because of insulation @mineyful

2019-07-04 22:17:20 UTC  

It proves cold light
Anyone can prove it themselves

2019-07-04 22:17:24 UTC  

On my walks it was colder in moon light. But there were lots of trees which could have caused that as well.

2019-07-04 22:17:26 UTC  

The moonlight does not cause an object to get colder. It’s the object in the shade that gets warmer.

When an object (or surface) is covered or shaded with a hand, roof, tree or cloud, it radiates less of its heat into the night air, and it will become slightly warmer than an object (or surface) that is exposed to the open night sky.

2019-07-04 22:17:47 UTC  

yes so the measurement doesn't have to be done in different buildings

2019-07-04 22:17:50 UTC  

light contains energy, if it were cold it would have negative energy

2019-07-04 22:17:55 UTC  

which is impossible

2019-07-04 22:17:59 UTC  

yeah I don't think negative energy exists lmao

2019-07-04 22:18:06 UTC  

unless ur saying that the light is just colder than the surroundings

2019-07-04 22:18:10 UTC  

no, that's llike saying everything cold has negative energy @Happygrandad

2019-07-04 22:18:28 UTC  

Heat, energy that is transferred from one body to another as the result of a difference in temperature.

2019-07-04 22:18:29 UTC  

lol thats why i said the above

2019-07-04 22:18:35 UTC  

yes, light just has to draw energy from what it hits

2019-07-04 22:18:37 UTC  

Anything that is covered by moonlight is colder than anything that is in the shade and not in the moonlight

2019-07-04 22:18:43 UTC  

yes

2019-07-04 22:18:49 UTC  

moonlight is just light

2019-07-04 22:18:50 UTC  

You may well be right. Like I said this would be no easy test. However if I use a magnifying lens with sunlight I can melt steel if it is large enough. Not with moonlight. It produces no heat at all.

2019-07-04 22:18:50 UTC  

lmao california I have you an explanation and you aren't alking about it

2019-07-04 22:19:06 UTC  

Heat, energy that is transferred from one body to another as the result of a difference in temperature.

2019-07-04 22:19:07 UTC  

Again it has been proven and can be proven by anyone with a Laser Thermometer

2019-07-04 22:19:10 UTC  

light only transfers energy

2019-07-04 22:19:20 UTC  

some people think using a magnifying glass would amplify the cooling effect

2019-07-04 22:19:29 UTC  

Heat is the energy an object has because of the movement of its atoms and molecules which are continuously jiggling and moving around, hitting each other and other objects. When we add energy to an object, its atoms and molecules move faster increasing its energy of motion or heat.

2019-07-04 22:19:31 UTC  

...

2019-07-04 22:19:37 UTC  

But surely if moonlight was redirected sunlight it'd be warmer than cooler?

2019-07-04 22:19:42 UTC  

magnifying it would only magnify the beam

2019-07-04 22:19:46 UTC  

making it hotter surely

2019-07-04 22:19:54 UTC  

moon isn't that reflective hence the drop in temperature given off

2019-07-04 22:20:07 UTC  

I tried one of them. It did not seem to work well. Even then is the warmth just going into the sky more where the moonlight can hit.

2019-07-04 22:20:16 UTC  

The answer is that the Moon is actually not very reflective,the Sun is just very bright. The Moon reflects only about 11% of the sunlight that hits it. But the Sun is so bright that even this much reflection looks very bright to us.

2019-07-04 22:20:22 UTC  

The one I used not very good.

2019-07-04 22:20:24 UTC  

night is always colder cos we aren't facing the sun

2019-07-04 22:20:34 UTC  

@carlito the argument is that it probably isn't i think

2019-07-04 22:20:40 UTC  

it'd be different than sunlight

2019-07-04 22:20:42 UTC  

I remember reading that the ground is colder when exposed to clear sky because heat radiates outward with nothing to insulate it. Objects sheltered under something would be slightly warmer as they are partially insulated. For example, the ground under a bridge would have the bridge to retain a bit of its heat at night.

2019-07-04 22:20:52 UTC  

The sun has warmed the surface during the day. Once the sun goes down, the earth's surface will begin to cool (energy emitted is greater than energy received). This causes the earth's surface to become progressively cooler during the night. ... The sun gradually warms the surface throughout the day.