Timeline for Does gravity acting on a resting object produce any heat?
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| Nov 15, 2015 at 0:18 | comment | added | Energizer777 | Again a tentative to discredit me. As long as the box contains atoms the gravity will act on them and compress the box. The OP does not talk about an ideal "solid rigid" box. Quote: "I was wondering if within the body of the box in the second system there was any more heat energy than in the body of the box in the first system due to the acceleration imposed on the atoms by gravity." | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 23:54 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @DilithiumMatrix Thanks for the shout-out, but a better link is physics.stackexchange.com/a/154514/520. David Hammond actually does this stuff. | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 23:51 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | There certainly is gravitational heating (or more generally Virial heating), but it occurs because of a net motion of mass toward the center, and accordingly doesn't answer the question about an object at rest. | |
| Nov 13, 2015 at 21:15 | comment | added | Energizer777 | The source of the heat inside earth is the "gravitational contraction of the Earth's interior" plus the heat generated by unstable isotopes. Gravity generates heat (see the Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism). | |
| Nov 13, 2015 at 19:37 | comment | added | DilithiumMatrix | No, this is wrong. @KennyDuran. The heat on earth is a combination of residual heat from when it formed (associated collapse), and radioactive heating. See this nice post. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 23:54 | comment | added | Striker | Ahh, so the box example is simply a rescaled version with less pressure above the box. Thank you. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 23:52 | history | answered | Energizer777 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |