when 2 people are close will the warmest person transfer calories to the other through radiating heat?
In: Biology
Yes but no.
A calorie is actually a unit of measuring energy. So if one person is radiating heat and another person is absorbing that heat then energy is being transferred and could be measured as calories.
What people usually mean when they refer to calories are actually dietary kilocalories and the only way for a human to get those is to eat and then digest something. No amount of energy gained from anything else will give a person dietary calories.
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