wirebender
Senior Member
first off, this paper demolishes wirebender's claim that no photons can be reflected back at the filament of a flashlight.
It doesn't touch my argument ian, but I suppose you can't be faulted to much for wishing that it did.
second, it demolishes the claim that back radiation can have no effect on the warmer body. if the 'generic' heat is not needed to produce the IR because it is already there, then that heat is freed up to produce higher energy radiation.
It demolishes the 2nd law of thermodynamics? Prove it ian. Lets see your math. For that matter, lets see "your particular version" of the 2nd law of thermodynamics which speaks to net energy flows.
Face it ian, you were wrong from the start, you never had a chance. The laws of physics and nature were against you. As westwall said, you are out of your depth and in order to even begin to grasp how far from the facts you are, you are going to have to get a handle on what a photon actually is. Till you understand that, the rest is going to look like (to quote you) magic.