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Cold

SciShow Tangents

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The Importance of Temperature

temperature is just a quantity. When we touch an ice cube, the wiggles from our hand are going into that ice cube. And so it feels cold to us. This is the thing cold doesn't exist. There's just less hot until there's no hot. That's the coldest thing is no hot. Everything else is just more and less hot because it's all wiggles. But realistically, we cannot make everything stop on atomic like quark, boas on, etc. level.

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