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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A key point is that your sense of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ is not measure of temperature. It is a measure of is your body gaining or losing heat, and how much, relative to what would be ideal for you body at that moment.
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