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Yes. The energy has just gone somewhere else. Some of the energy turned into EM radiation (usually infrared unless the object is REALLY, REALLY hot). Some of the energy went into heating any other matter with which the object was in contact. Sometimes the energy is released in sound or motion or chemical changes, as with a burning log.

That energy still exists somewhere in the universe, just not where you left it.

2006-06-14 10:49:40 · answer #1 · answered by BalRog 5 · 2 0

Yes, energy is conserved, so it has to go somewhere. When you turn off a a stove burner, the heat energy dissipates into the stove and the air. Eventually the stove is cool and the heat that made the burner red hot has made your house some fraction of a degree warmer. You might think all that heat would build up but your house loses heat to the ground and the air outside, and the earth radiates heat into space.

2006-06-14 18:53:35 · answer #2 · answered by injanier 7 · 0 0

A quantum of heat dosn't exactly "cool." It becomes less energetic as it's energy dissipates to another form. Until that quantum hits absolute zero (no heat) it will have energy. Though, even when that quantum reaches absolute zero, the heat is elsewhere, existing in another form. So the short answer is: yes. For more info, look up the seccond law of thermodynamics. While energy can enter entropy, it never dissapears.

2006-06-14 18:23:16 · answer #3 · answered by Christopher S 1 · 0 0

By definition coolness or coldness is the absence of heat energy. Until something hits absolute zero, where all particle/atomic/molecular/whatever motion inside matter stops, there is still heat energy. The closest lab experiments have gotten to absolute zero is to within a few billionths of a K[elvin]degree. Even outer space has a residual heat from the Big Bang of approx 3 degrees K.

2006-06-14 17:53:11 · answer #4 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 0 0

Yes because there will be an energy input from some other source. Heat isn't the only source of energy.

2006-06-14 17:51:19 · answer #5 · answered by GraceB 2 · 0 0

Yes. The heat energy is just diffused throughout whatever object was warm. It's still there, just scattered so much you can't detect it.

2006-06-14 17:51:41 · answer #6 · answered by Cathy Helen 2 · 0 0

heat is only one form of energy and we cannot always associate energy w/ heat ,

2006-06-14 17:57:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

engery is never goes away...it just changes states

2006-06-14 17:51:16 · answer #8 · answered by Ruiisu 2 · 0 0

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