Absolutely normal. Strictly there's no such thing as temperature (don't ask, you'll get a full essay off me). It's more a contrast between the heat of things.
A good experiment to prove this is to have three bowls of water. One with iced water, one room temperature, and one as warm as you can cope with. Put one hand in the ice water, one in the hot water and hold them there for a minute.
Now put both hands in the room temperature water. The hand from the ice water will be much hotter than the hand that's been in the hot water, although thermometers will say it's actually significantly colder. The way the body feels temperature is by contrast, so it's not that things are hot or cold, it's that they're hotter or colder, regardless of what the baseline temperature was.
Yeah, exactly, and the energy manifests itself largely as the speed things are flying around. Temperature is actually velocity. It seems very strange to consider it that way, though, because humans are very much into their own viewpoints and their own viewpoint is "Do I need another layer of clothing" or "Am I going to get sunburnt" rather than "I wonder how fast things are moving today".
Is it normal that cold things make my hands hot?
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Absolutely normal. Strictly there's no such thing as temperature (don't ask, you'll get a full essay off me). It's more a contrast between the heat of things.
A good experiment to prove this is to have three bowls of water. One with iced water, one room temperature, and one as warm as you can cope with. Put one hand in the ice water, one in the hot water and hold them there for a minute.
Now put both hands in the room temperature water. The hand from the ice water will be much hotter than the hand that's been in the hot water, although thermometers will say it's actually significantly colder. The way the body feels temperature is by contrast, so it's not that things are hot or cold, it's that they're hotter or colder, regardless of what the baseline temperature was.
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Heat is the presence of energy and the less energy the coldest no?
I could go for an essay, lol
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Yeah, exactly, and the energy manifests itself largely as the speed things are flying around. Temperature is actually velocity. It seems very strange to consider it that way, though, because humans are very much into their own viewpoints and their own viewpoint is "Do I need another layer of clothing" or "Am I going to get sunburnt" rather than "I wonder how fast things are moving today".