How can you walk on hot coals without feeling pain or damaging your feet?

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How can you walk on hot coals without feeling pain or damaging your feet?

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For much the same reason that you can stick your hand in a 450 degree oven (without touching anything) and not receive serious burns. The air itself is a terrible conductor of heat. So too is the layer of ash covering a burning coal.