In a thermodynamic class I took in 1989, the professor was talking about the transfer of heat and someone asked this question. The prof. didn’t attempt to explain it because it was off topic from the lecture, but he did say the answer had a more complex biological reason, and not that the floor was actually colder.
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As a human you have a specific body temperature that is generally higher than room temperature. As such if you touch a thermally conductive object it will feel cold to you because you’re warmer than it and it’s “sucking” in your heat and dissipates it. Now if it was a very warm room, close to human body temperature, things would stop feeling cold to the touch, even the fairly conductive ones. Of course it would also be quite an unpleasant room to be in.
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