Heat energy can travel through a complete vacuum

[Judi Lynn]

Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness.

BY
AMIT MALEWAR
DECEMBER 12, 2019

Heat transfer in solids is typically conducted through either electrons or atomic vibrations known as phonons. In a vacuum, heat has long been thought to be transferred by radiation but not by phonons because of the lack of a medium.

A recent study has predicted that quantum fluctuations of electromagnetic fields could induce phonon coupling across a vacuum and thereby facilitate heat transfer. The survey conducted by the scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, has shown that weirdness of quantum mechanics can turn basic tenet of classical physics on its head.

Due to a quantum mechanical phenomenon called the Casimir interaction, heat energy can jump over two or three hundred nanometers of a vacuum.

Despite the fact that this interaction is just noteworthy on extremely short length scales, it could have a significant design for the computer chips and other nanoscale electronic parts where heat dispersal is vital. It likewise overturns what a substantial number of us found out about warmth move in high school fees.

More:
https://www.techexplorist.com/heat-energy-travel-through-complete-vacuum/28470/

[OhNo-Really]

1. What if

There is no nothing? What if there are mediums we have failed to understand?

In art, different mediums create different outcomes.

What if what we call a “vacuum” is actually a medium yet to be discovered because we lack technology to measure the unknown medium?

What if what we call “space” is actually a substance? And if so, what properties might remain undiscovered?

I find it difficult to perceive anything in this Universe as nothing.

Mass & motion must have an ocean of something to sail in.

This 1894 book cosmology intro is intriguing

The Holy Science
https://archive.org/details/HolyScience/page/n1

Fun to quantum play!

[NNadir]

2. This may be a different mechanism, but heat transfer in a vacuum has been well known...

...for a very long time, as radiative heat transfer.

Without it, the seas would have boiled away a long time ago from the internal heat of the Earth, despite it not receiving any heat from the sun.