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Ask ScienceEnglish • 21 days ago

When you see 'heat rising', what are you actually seeing?

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When you see 'heat rising', what are you actually seeing?

Admiral Patrick to

Ask ScienceEnglish • 21 days ago

Like the title says: when you see “heat rising” (the wavy/blurry area above a heat source), what are you actually seeing?

Bonus question: How does that cast a shadow? I noticed when I was opening my air fryer, I could see the shadow of the heat rising but, looking at the hot basket itself, couldn’t see it.

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“wavefront of light”, “distorted from planar” 🤯

You took me straight back to a D- in intro to optics and modern physics where my classmates were trying to solve problems based on concepts, where I was trying to solve the problem of not understanding the concepts.

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