I understand that things like metal often feel colder than wood, but I wouldn’t think that something like my feet could considering my feet are “alive” flesh and blood. How is this??
In: Biology
You don’t feel hot and cold directly. What you feel is the rate of change in thermal energy. Hot things give you thermal energy as heat and cold things take it away. Even if two things are the same temperate, like wood and metal, they do not transfer heat at the same rate. The metal will feel hotter or colder to the touch because it more thermally conductive and heat energy moves through it better.
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