My SO said the above statement and gave me an explanation “Cold is the absence of heat or energy”, it does make sense however in my head it is like saying (in very simplistic terms) “the countryside is the absence of a city” and that is just a ridiculous statement.
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The countryside is the absence of a city is incorrect; because the country side is one or many things that can occupy space without being a city.
Cold is the absence of heat is not a shower thought, it is the defining factor of “cold”
Why? Well temperature is measured in how hot something is (which is energy moving around particles)
Hot refers to a physical property
Cold is just an absence of hotness because we feel things as cold when they have less energy stored as heat than what we are used to feeling.
Instead of city and countryside, think of silence and sound instead.
You can measure the loudness of sound, but you can’t measure the silenceness of something, because it is not a property by itself; it is the absence of noise.
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