Timeline for How cold would a bowling ball near absolute zero make a room?
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| Sep 2, 2014 at 22:55 | vote | accept | Brandon | ||
| Sep 2, 2014 at 19:57 | comment | added | mcodesmart | Simple thermodynamics. | |
| Sep 2, 2014 at 7:01 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Sep 2, 2014 at 6:29 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 1, 2014 at 23:44 | answer | added | pho | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 1, 2014 at 23:32 | comment | added | Floris | It depends mostly on the velocity of the bowling ball when it appears, and your position relative to it... :-) Seriously, thermal conductivity of bowling ball is low, so the effect would be small - smaller than the effect of 10 bowling balls that are only 30 K below room temperature. Not only would the latter have slightly more relative heat capacity, but more importantly they would be able to give off their heat 10x more efficiently (greater total area). | |
| Sep 1, 2014 at 23:31 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Er ... it (the ball) would warm up? I mean, your room would get chilly for a few minutes, but nothing catastrophic is going to happen unless you insist on cuddling up to it and that will hurt enough to convince you not to. | |
| Sep 1, 2014 at 23:28 | comment | added | CuriousOne | Next to nothing would happen that wouldn't happen for a bowling ball at the temperature of liquid nitrogen (and that would be little enough). Heat capacity near absolute zero is very small (approaching zero), which means that cooling down an object ever further doesn't do much, at all, in terms of the heat that it can absorb. At most, tho cold would freeze your skin, if you were to touch it... which would be foolish, painful and perfectly survivable. | |
| Sep 1, 2014 at 23:00 | history | asked | Brandon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |