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If every object is radiating constantly why aren't all objects getting colder?
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∙ 14y ago
Even if objects did absorb energy continuously, since everything is made of smaller things, when they reached a certain temperature they would simply dissociate into their constituents. So instead of 1 very hot object you get several moderately warm objects.
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∙ 13y ago
Wiki User
∙ 14y agoBut they ARE getting colder!
We are dying heat death; in just a few hundred billion years there will be just a whimper left of the universe!
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