07-July-2005, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Michael Mozina
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Originally Posted by Fram
Then how can the silicon layer be hotter near the top? It is either uniformly heated, or cooler at the top.
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It is heated from the electrical activity. It is cooled by the neon. Imagine a room where the air conditioning comes from a vent in the ceiling. As the air conditioner kicks on, the cool air will fall. When it heats up from surfaces in the room, it will rise up again, and process is repeated. This is exactly that's going on in the silicon layer. It's pure physics.
If that doesn't float your boat, try a lava lamp visual. The heavier material will eventually release it's heat to the lighter layers and it will fall back down again. There is nothing unusual about what I'm suggesting.
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If you are not convinced by the house example I gave, then take a forest fire. The hottest air is down, at the fire, and the coolest air is higher up, above the fire. I hope you won't dispute this.
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Um, yes, I guess I'm going to have to dispute this. Hot air rises, and cool air falls. There is cooler air above the fire, and cooler area AROUND the fire, but the FIRE is the hot point, not the air. The air from around the fire will come rushing in to fill in where the hot air that is rising. There is "cool air" all around and potentially underneath the fire as well. The silicon in this place takes the place of the air, and the electrical arcs take the place of the fire. |
We are definitely not going to convince one another. Of course, mainstream science seems to take my position, like in this basic explanation of the convection zone, and the temperature at the bottom and at the top. I know you'll not agree with the model of the sun used there, but the mechanism of convection as described there corresponds with my idea, not yours.
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