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Old 2006-04-17, 20:52   Link #39
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Originally Posted by Shinova
Actually you didn't tell me anything.



Er, no, a laser is photons not heat. It heats up stuff along the way cause it hits molecules in between and causes them to vibrate, hence they get hotter. Laser itself is not traveling heat.

As for infrared, just as an aside, that's also not heat itself but simply a wavelength of light that is emmitted in the presence of hot objects. Infrared is not heat itself. Since it's present near hot objects we typically assume it's a sort of "heat sensor" but we're not actually sensing the heat, instead we're sensing a specific type of light that is given off by a hot object.
we are talking about lasers meant to cut (forgot that name sorry lol ^^;
no but photons carry heat. laser is traveling heat
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