• mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It really depends on what you mean by temperature. You’re both right, but both wrong depending on context.

    Individual atoms and particles tend to have a lot of energy, but also there’s almost no heat transfer into larger bodies because of the low density of those particles, so you lose more heat to radiation than you take in (unless you are in direct sunlight.)