[hliyan]

As I understand, temperature is a measure of how fast atoms and molecules are vibrating, and not a measure of how much energy per unit area of contact can be transferred in a unit time.

[guidedlight]

Exactly. Stick your hand into an oven at 100 celsius ...OR... Stick your hand into into a pot of water at 100 celsius.

The difference is that the water molecules are more tightly packed, than the air molecules in the oven. In space, they are quite far apart.

[mpweiher]

> Stick your hand into into a pot of water at 100 celsius

..and: please don't! :)

[sebazzz]

Fast reflexes will prevent major damage. It won't prevent pain though.

[jacquesm]

As someone with extensive scarring on one arm from a water burn I'd prefer it if you didn't put things like this out there.

Fast reflexes won't help your hand to recover from a bad burn, they won't prevent it either, your hand is much too large to be immersed fully and retracted before substantial damage will occur.

[mcbits]

Maybe for a fingertip, but I wouldn't try it with a full hand. The water stuck to the hand will take time to cool down no matter how fast you remove it. Unless you're just saying second degree burns don't count as major damage...

[kenjackson]

Is that also a reason that you feel warmer in high humidity heat?

[tgb]

That's only part of it - sweat not being able to evaporate is another part. I'm not sure which is the bigger effect.

[1ste]

The article's video described this

[Sharlin]

As explained in the article.

> Temperature measures how fast particles are moving, whereas heat measures the total amount of energy that they transfer.