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Flat Earth Community / Re: Why is it warmer in the shadow of moonlight rather than cooler?
« on: May 11, 2021, 09:51:00 PM »
Cooling by light or sound is not as unusual as it intuitively seems.
It is unclear, in the measurements I’ve seen - mostly taken outside, whether moonlight has the effect that is claimed / ostensibly observed.
The “insulation effect” iceman described is certainly possible, and to get to the bottom of it would require controlling for that.
If you could conduct the observations all inside / in a styrofoam cooler and selectively let moonlight in and block it (of course doing proper “controls” of opening and closing said aperture and monitoring the effect on the temperature with and without moonlight when the outside temperature was the same) then you could start to figure it out.
Did any of the procedures you saw do that, to certainly demonstrate that the moonlight was the cause of the cooling (and not just the effect of the lack of thermal “blanket” of the shade)? The ones I have seen do not control for what iceman is saying, and they really should!
It is unclear, in the measurements I’ve seen - mostly taken outside, whether moonlight has the effect that is claimed / ostensibly observed.
The “insulation effect” iceman described is certainly possible, and to get to the bottom of it would require controlling for that.
If you could conduct the observations all inside / in a styrofoam cooler and selectively let moonlight in and block it (of course doing proper “controls” of opening and closing said aperture and monitoring the effect on the temperature with and without moonlight when the outside temperature was the same) then you could start to figure it out.
Did any of the procedures you saw do that, to certainly demonstrate that the moonlight was the cause of the cooling (and not just the effect of the lack of thermal “blanket” of the shade)? The ones I have seen do not control for what iceman is saying, and they really should!