I have to agree with you about heat being a purely electromagnetic
phenomen with a band of frequencies that produce various levels and
types of heat.
It has always interested me that Ultraviolet light will burn but it is a
'cold' burn, i.e. you don't feel any pain or heat until the damage is
done. As opposed to Infrared heat which is plainly felt as a 'hot'
heat. Dinshah brought this out in many of his Chromatherapy books.
As to the Peltiers, I still have the big one you gave me and a couple of
the smaller ones....it sure is an easy enough experiment to carry out
and it is a mystery to me also as to how they work..I remember reading
something about electron donors being involved....
You know, since most things are crystalline in nature, particularly
metals, perhaps this swept magnetic field effect of magnetocaloric
cooling is the key....on an elemental scale where those metal crystals
are made to function like a solid state heat pump....<g>...
So, thanks for the offer of the care package, but I still have the
others to play with....something odd here, lets see who all responds
with different ideas...would be interesting to see what everyone else
thinks about the Peltier junction cooling phenomenon.
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