If heat is not solid how can we feel it?

Answer 1

Water isn't solid, how come we feel that?
Something doesn't have to be soild for us to feel it. Heat is energy usualy transmited throuh radiation. When the radiation hits a surface, say your body, it causes to motion of the atoms in the surface to accelerate. The resulting friction is precieved as heat.

Answer 2

If light is not solid, how can we see it?

Organisms are equipped with some really cool sensors.

The way we sense heat is by change in temperater. Heat energy (certainly not solid and somewhat metaphysical) from say, a cup of hot chocolate, moves from the chocolate to our tongue where it changes the temperature of the tongue. We have nerves sensors that can register the change in temperature of the tongue, thereby measuring the flow of heat energy from the chocolate thereby detecting (feeling) heat.

Amazing really.

Answer 3

The way that anything is felt is through neuro-receptors in the skin. These nerves are sensitive to changes in cold, heat, or pressure. The neuro-receptors transmit a signal to the brain which is interpreted as heat, cold, or pressure. The brain puts the sensation in context whether it is pleasurable or painful.

Answer 4

heat is a gas or the air we breath that the btu has been raised to a level that allows the bodies own internal heater to notice/feel the heat index is rising

Answer 5

Just one of the senses. It's a fascinating world, isn't it? Makes me wonder what things are going on that we can't sense.

Answer 6

radiation