Light From The Sun Takes About 8 Minutes To Reach Us.

SnookerPlayer | 12:51 Sat 14th Jan 2017 | Science

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Why do you feel the warmth of the sun as soon as a cloud passes over ?

After all, sunlight takes 8 mins to reach us.

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bhg481

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Think about being outdoors on a cold morning with a clear sky. Whilst you're standing in the sunshine you can feel the radiation heat from it. If you go into the shade you immediately feel colder even though the air temperature is the same. Being in space would be like that; in fact spacemen wear special suits because the radiation from the sun is not filtered out...

13:10 Sat 14th Jan 2017

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ichkeria

Donny I was just reflecting that 10 seconds would not explain 'instantaneous' even if the actual answer is more complicated than that

SnookerPlayer

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Appreciate all replies, I just woke up and pondered, should have stayed in bed.

EDDIE51

Heat is really just light that is in the Infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Visible light is just a tiny part of the whole electromagnetic spectrum
see here
http://www2.lbl.gov/images/MicroWorlds/EMSpec.gif

hereIam

That's news to me melv !!!

mibn2cweus

Sunlight takes about 500 seconds to reach Earth from the Sun but (at nearly one billion feet per second) just microseconds to travel from a cloud to the ground.

magpie

the last time i was a spectator at a total eclipse of the sun i could swear that the temperature was distinctly cooler for days afterwards.

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