"Cold light?"

Hope this isn't just something I missed, but in the FAQ, they mention the sun radiating warm light, which makes sense, and the moon radiating "cold light," which, in my mind, doesn't. What is this mysterious cold light? I'll welcome any explanation, from dark matter to witchcraft, but I'll try to believe any serious answers.

i think that it means colder relative to the warm sunlight, as cold is an adjective to describe temperature. Something cannot be cold without something warm to put it in perspective.
unless it is some strange force that cannot be explained such as dark matter...

Ooh, hadn't thought of that, all I could think of what crazy paradoxal backwards energy that shot out of the moon into the Earth, shattering the laws of physics. I guess a better term would be "cool light"

Hope this isn't just something I missed, but in the FAQ, they mention the sun radiating warm light, which makes sense, and the moon radiating "cold light," which, in my mind, doesn't. What is this mysterious cold light? I'll welcome any explanation, from dark matter to witchcraft, but I'll try to believe any serious answers.

Light on a wavelength that doesn't transmit much heat.

Hope this isn't just something I missed, but in the FAQ, they mention the sun radiating warm light, which makes sense, and the moon radiating "cold light," which, in my mind, doesn't. What is this mysterious cold light? I'll welcome any explanation, from dark matter to witchcraft, but I'll try to believe any serious answers.

Keep in mind that this is one of countless theories.  Some believe that the moon is just reflecting ambient light, similar to the RE model.

Quote from: Axesome on January 11, 2009, 07:19:17 PM

Hope this isn't just something I missed, but in the FAQ, they mention the sun radiating warm light, which makes sense, and the moon radiating "cold light," which, in my mind, doesn't. What is this mysterious cold light? I'll welcome any explanation, from dark matter to witchcraft, but I'll try to believe any serious answers.

Light on a wavelength that doesn't transmit much heat.

So that would be what, EM radiation of sufficiently low energy that we cannot feel it as heat? That would be radio/microwaves which are invisible to our eyes.

Quote from: Raist on January 11, 2009, 08:56:21 PM

Quote from: Axesome on January 11, 2009, 07:19:17 PM

Hope this isn't just something I missed, but in the FAQ, they mention the sun radiating warm light, which makes sense, and the moon radiating "cold light," which, in my mind, doesn't. What is this mysterious cold light? I'll welcome any explanation, from dark matter to witchcraft, but I'll try to believe any serious answers.

Light on a wavelength that doesn't transmit much heat.

So that would be what, EM radiation of sufficiently low energy that we cannot feel it as heat? That would be radio/microwaves which are invisible to our eyes.

I didn't say low energy. Just doesn't produce much heat.

"I didn't say low energy. Just doesn't produce much heat."

All light has the same potential to generate the same amount of friction--> heat.  All it needs is a molecule/ atom to resonate with.  All light in the visible spectrum has a resonance frequency capable of generating the same amount of heat (about).  Because the light from the moon is visible, it must be able to generate heat.  The reason that it doesn't generate the same amount of heat is because the light from the moon is much much less intense than the light from the sun (why you can look at the moon and not the sun w/o burning your retina).

"I didn't say low energy. Just doesn't produce much heat."

All light has the same potential to generate the same amount of friction--> heat.  All it needs is a molecule/ atom to resonate with.  All light in the visible spectrum has a resonance frequency capable of generating the same amount of heat (about).  Because the light from the moon is visible, it must be able to generate heat.  The reason that it doesn't generate the same amount of heat is because the light from the moon is much much less intense than the light from the sun (why you can look at the moon and not the sun w/o burning your retina).

Along the lines of what I meant, also a wavelength that reflects out of the atmosphere better.