Categories: Comparisons
An analogy used in popular science writing:
"In the sun, the temperature, which is only 6000˚C at the surface, increases gradually inward reaching in the centre the tremendous value of 20 million degrees. This figure can be calculated without much difficulty from the observed surface temperature of the solar body and from the known heat-conducting properties of the gases form which it is formed. Similarly we can calculate the temperature inside a hot potato without cutting it, if we know how hot it is on the surface, and what the heat conductivity of its material is."
George Gamow (1961) One, Two, Three…Infinity. Facts and speculations of science, Revised Edition, Dover Publications, Inc., New York.
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