The sun is 93,000,000 million miles away, and sunlight takes eight minutes to get here so would the light be hot, or does it have a temperature at all?
2007-07-16 08:21:08 · 3 answers · asked by Mr. Goodnight. 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Sunlight is a stream of photons emitted from the sun. Photons do not have a temperature in the traditional sense since that is a measurement of the movement of atoms. Photons can add energy when they collide with atoms, thus affecting them and altering the temperature but they do not have that property themselves
2007-07-16 08:32:22 · answer #1 · answered by varithus 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Light does not have a temperature. Only things with mass have temperatures, and light is just photons, which have no mass.
However, light can cause the temperature of something to rise. If an object absorbs light, the energy of the light becomes kinetic energy, or heat. Therefore, the temperature of the object is raised.
2007-07-16 15:27:19 · answer #2 · answered by lithiumdeuteride 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont think light has a temperature because it is in itself a form of energy. It can be converted to heat energy (as when you use light to keep food warm). temperature is only a measure of how how or cold a body is. Cold is just less hot, just like dark is less light.
2007-07-16 15:29:28 · answer #3 · answered by Sagar K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋