sangha
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You are clo9ser to the truth than Old Rocks, but I will be nicer to you because you do not claim any expertise in science.
The temperature of space between the Earth and the Sun is warmer that the space between Mars and the Sun. The reason the Earth is warmer than the space surrounding it is because the Earth is denser, and has a layer that serves as a blanket to insulate it from the colder space. Additionally, the Earth is warmed internally, which has a small, but significant, effect on the temperature.
The very fact that heat moves through space at all proves it is not a vacuum, because a perfect vacuum would be perfect insulation.
uberfail. no way!
He's thinking about the sun's energy moving as heat, which requires mass. But the sun's energy moves as just that - electromagnetic energy. Which moves through a vacuum and isn't converted to heat until it encounters mass.
Think we've all confused the poor OP sufficiently yet?
The heat from the sun is not converted from electromagnetic energy. It is generated from photons hitting matter.