In a room where the temp is constant and everything is at equilibrium, why does a tile floor feel colder?

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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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Because your foot is warmer than the floor. You are producing heat through chemical reactions in your body and the floor is not producing heat

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