just which 'fields' are you talking about? the earth's magnetic/electric field? yes that field can interact with other magnetic/electric fields. but the radiation emitted by the earth's heat is not an interactive field. the IR radiation is complete, the photons are real, there are no field strength lines.
I am OK with treating the atmosphere as matter. the same question you dodged before is still pertinent. where do the photons 'cancel out'? you already said that the CO2 molecules dont interact with the 'EM field'. so why dont you describe what is happening and where?
a thought experiment. a laser pointed at a perfect mirror. do the photons cancel out or does the intensity of the photons just build up until the mirror or the laser gets disrupted?
DUDE!!! its electro-magnetic field... So you can say the earths heat is not interactive? How?

its funny but radiative heat is now suddenly not heat or what? You must be on a binge...
And the atmosphere is matter.. Damn man are you high? A gas is matter, a liquid is matter, a solid is matter. All of them are matter just in different states. You can be as okay as you want to be "treating the atmosphere as matter" because IT IS MATTER!!!
Mr. Physics.... Oh my god man...

is this the field you guys are talking about? it only interacts with charged particles and other magnetic or electric fields.
would you care to link up a site that talks about actual photons extinguishing them selves against each other? or an electric or magnetic field that does anything but slightly polarize incoming light (when in the presence of matter)?
I dont know why I respond to you. you have no actual position based on knowledge to argue with. at least wirebender is arguing from (confused) knowledge and there is hope that he will see his mistake sooner or later. all of us can make a mistake sometimes. but you dont have a clue and argue just to insult people.
radiation, heat and temperature all have different meanings.
Ian you just sat there in your last post saying the most uneducated and utterly ignorant things I have heard since konradv..lets review shall we?
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just which 'fields' are you talking about? the earth's magnetic/electric field? yes that field can interact with other magnetic/electric fields. but the radiation emitted by the earth's heat is not an interactive field. the IR radiation is complete, the photons are real, there are no field strength lines."
WOW IAN!... Seriously?? Its called an electro-magnetic field. Jesus dude, you cannot tell me a person of your claimed knowledge in this would not know this term. hell man we been using it all along. An
Electro-
Magnetic
Field or
EM Field get it? Damn man.. And as far as the rest of it, its illogical gibberish.
Ian this will be my last attempt to be reasonable and logical with you. You respond with more gibberish, or mince my words or twist what I am saying again, and you will get the kornholev treatment from me here on out.
The heat radiated from the earth is still heat. The fact is calling the earth a black body in spite of this heat generation is misleading in terms of total heat. Black body as in light emitting. The earth does not emit its own light, it does however give off heat. Its core is still molten and this creates warmth and the fact the core is made up of predominately iron, and given its molten state creates movement, this creates an electro-magnetic field that encases the planet and its atmosphere. The use of the term "black body" in instances where the planet has its own heat source is misleading.
In your ignorance you keep mixing the concepts here. You mix light with heat, and or dismiss either one as it suits your argument. A photon is a quantum of an EM field. be it from the sun directly or from anything else, its still a photon. it has the properties of BOTH a wave and a particle. You do not seem to understand this concept at all.
Ian there are two separate things here that you seem to arbitrarily call one and the same. There is light, and there is heat. heat can come from a source like the sun where light and heat is emitted from a nuclear reaction or heat can be from a transference of energy from two forces interacting like what happens here on earth. There are other forms and examples but these two suffice for our conversation.
The point here being, how much heat do we receive from the sun directly as a heat source, how much heat do we already create from out core and eco-system, and how much heat is generated by the interactions of light hitting our planet and atmosphere. Do these often conflicting heat sources effect the total heat on our planet and how much for each?
I ask you Ian why don't we use heat lamps to warm a house in winter? Because it's not a very efficient way to heat a house. And why is that? Because it produces more or as much light as it does heat and we don't want or need that much light in a house 24/7. So we use other heat sources that create more heat than light like a furnace burning a fuel or an electric current through a metal which also produces more heat than light.
Heat one aspect, light another aspect. Got it yet? You seem to function on some very twisted ideas about photons, light, heat and wave-particle duality that you could not have gotten in any real physical sciences study. fact is you have shown that you do not recognize any standard concepts. You certainly do not understand the concepts of a photon, or the EM fields they comprise. And your own statement about I may have been able to show wave-particle duality, shows clearly you think its some form intangible or esoteric thing. Dude its physics 101...
How could you NOT know the double-slit experiment? I mean really...
Edit: Can't believe I didn't see this right away... Ian you said....
"is this the field you guys are talking about? it only interacts with charged particles and other magnetic or electric fields."
Really Ian? but haven't you spent several days and innumerable posts claiming that it doesn't interact with other EM Fields? You said many things to this effect many many times. Why you even argue against this concept later on in that very same post...
"..or an electric or magnetic field that does anything but slightly polarize incoming light (when in the presence of matter)?"
WTH??? Dude you seriously just said one thing and then another about the same thing... If there was any doubt that you are pulling things out of your butt and googling terms to give yourself some false air of knowledge, that right there just cured it..
You start off saying em fields can't interact with one another, then change it to they cant interact with out the presence of matter, then it went they do interact with other EM fields, only now be they only slightly polarize light.. Which is it Ian? Do you even know? I am tired of your silly, ignorant and childish pretense here. You know squat about this Ian, its plain as day and whats worse you are showing just how utterly full of your make-believe world you are... Wow man..I have no words that can cover the depth of your nonsense..
