Could the theory that when things get to their hottestpoint they will cool down enough to create another Ice Age? Will a physics major know? Probably. {please send me an answer in this forum.} Jennifer.
2007-05-22 09:54:20 · 3 answers · asked by Jennifer B 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I don't know where you heard that, but that's not a law of thermodynamics. Only an effect of heating something up and then letting it cool down. The Earth could easily be millions of degrees hotter than it is. But if the Sun were causing global warming on the Earth, we would see it on all the other planets as well - and we don't. We've been checking. It would effect them all.
2007-05-22 11:12:27 · answer #1 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thermodynamics isn't particularly applicable to this, although it does of course apply to this as well as to everything else. The earth's temperature has varied since it formed, most significantly recently with the Ice Ages. Whatever caused the last one will probably cause the next one; change in solar activity is a possible culprit.
2007-05-22 10:00:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thermodynamics is the science of energy. It has nothing to do with climate changes
2007-05-22 09:59:05 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋