Eli5 is there no such thing as cold?

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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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“Cold” isn’t a thing in the same way that “black light” isn’t a thing. And no, not the ultraviolet “black lights” but actual black color light.

Or hows about this – you could potentially give someone heat. You could NOT potentially give someone cold (you could take their heat though, which is where the confusion comes from). Cold just isn’t a “thing” as much as it is a description of relative heat.

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