Monday, July 26, 2010

How is it that the exact second the sun hits your skin you can feel its heat?

Shouldn't it take a few seconds or does that mean it's just really hot?How is it that the exact second the sun hits your skin you can feel its heat?
Actually, you don't directly feel ';heat'; from the sun. The sun's heat (emr) is absorbed by the earth and the earth then heats the surrounding air which is what we feel.How is it that the exact second the sun hits your skin you can feel its heat?
It is really hot. Unimaginably hot. Think about this, it is the heat coming from a thermonuclear explosion. It is so hot that even though the heat hitting your skin has gone over ninety-three Million miles, through the freezing cold of space, and passed through the filter of the Earth's atmosphere, it is still hot. It is a heat source so huge that our entire planet would be like a grain of sand on a big beach on the surface of the sun.
Maybe your wondering how it gets from the sun to your skin so fast? In reality it takes about two minutes for a sun ray leaving the sun to reach the surface. The reason you can still step outside and feel the sun on your skin instantly (or almost so) is that your feeling rays that left about two minutes ago, before you even went outside. Imagine this too: the light you see from other stars at night could have taken millions of years to get to you. Looking in the sky is like looking into the past.
Wow, a collection of very poor answers.... Omegavoids answered correctly - and I reiterate.





The time frame for the sunlight to warm up a given cell on your skin, and then for that warming sensation to be transmitted, via your nervous system, to your brain is extremely, EXTREMELY, fast.





Oh, and the light from the sun takes 8 minutes to get from the sun to the Earth, not two.
You don't feel it in the exact second. Your skin Absorbs the sunlight. And it sends Signals to the brain(very fast) to tell it of the heat.
Firstly the light or thermal energy will touch your skin and your skin then will absorb the heat and than your brain will know it with the help of skin.ok i want ten points
dun pnic! it only sun rise dude:-P

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