From: iamnotbobdog@hotmail.com   
      
   On 10 Sep 2004 08:01:04 -0700, Shadowmega@rcn.com wrote:   
      
   >I would've posted this question in the chemistry newsgroup but the   
   >people in there seem like idiots and I fear it would never get   
   >answered. Heat is defined as the vibration of molecules right? Well how   
   >does heat then travels through a vacuum?   
      
   As I understand it, It doesn't.  The Vibrating molecules produce   
   radiation that travels across the vacuum. This radiation is then   
   absorbed by molecules at the other end, causing them to vibrate.   
      
   Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not   
   sure about the former.   
   Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)   
      
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