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 Originally Posted by BananaStand
So I can change the temperature outside by walking outdoors with a thermometer?
Theoretically, yes... ish.
Your presence is definitely emitting ~75 Watts of heat when you're inactive. It can be as high as ~150 Watts under intense physical exertion, like any time your breathing is elevated for a sustained period.
This is going to trump the small amount of heat being absorbed or emitted by the thermometer as it comes into thermodynamic equilibrium.
Being able to measure and prove the heat a body emits in a well insulated room of any size is standard. In laboratories where temperature control is essential, there is generally a line of 100 W lamps in the room and whenever a researcher enters the lab, they turn off a light, and turn it back on when they leave. This helps maintain the heat being generated in the lab.
Proving this happens in the atmosphere with a thermometer is going to be impossible.
Conservation of Energy still holds that if you're emitting heat into the atmosphere, then the atmosphere is getting warmer. Whether or not you're inside is probably of minimal relevance. The air in your house is cycled with outside air more often than you may think, but it varies widely. It's just that the atmosphere is really big [citation needed] and the cumulative effect your body heat has on global climate is negligible.
Originally Posted by BananaStand
Sorry, I'm not buying it.
There goes my retirement!
Originally Posted by BananaStand
The fact that I can change the behavior of matter in a way that defies is explained by the rules of physics, merely by exercising my own consciousness, pretty much proves that I am God.
Or at least, a god
FYP, oh mighty god-brother.
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