when did my brew go cold?

Grega · Jul 20, 2008

See...I take the time to boil the kettle and make myself a cup of tea but annoyingly after a period of time I discover that it is cold!!!...I have tried to determine the exact point where my brew transfroms from being a hot cup of tea to being a cold cup of tea by watching it continuously but I never see the critical moment!

Why can I not see this transition? Is someone hitting me with tranquilisers when my tea changes from hot to cold?...how do they know where to find me all the time, why don't I see them?

Please help!!!

pgp_protector · Jul 20, 2008

No tranquilisers involved.
The problem is the tea was used to power a improbability drive.

AV1611VET · Jul 20, 2008

Grega said:
I have tried to determine the exact point where my brew transfroms from being a hot cup of tea to being a cold cup of tea by watching it continuously but I never see the critical moment!

That's because it's always "hot."

Since temperature is nothing more than the average amount of kinetic energy in an object, your tea never "went cold" on the Kelvin Scale.

Pwnzerfaust · Jul 20, 2008

Grega said:
See...I take the time to boil the kettle and make myself a cup of tea but annoyingly after a period of time I discover that it is cold!!!...I have tried to determine the exact point where my brew transfroms from being a hot cup of tea to being a cold cup of tea by watching it continuously but I never see the critical moment!

Why can I not see this transition? Is someone hitting me with tranquilisers when my tea changes from hot to cold?...how do they know where to find me all the time, why don't I see them?

Please help!!!

I recommend keeping a finger in the cup at all times. Then, with a second finger on your other hand, dip in every minute or so. The first finger is just for the lulz. The second one is so that you can feel the progress of it getting cooler.

Or something.

flatworm · Jul 20, 2008

<snark>
Your brew did not grow cold on its own. That would require a decrease in entropy which, according to the 2nd Law of Creationist Thermodynamics cannot happen anywhere, at any time unless it was deliberately orchestrated by an intelligent force.

So the real question is: Who made your brew go cold?
</snark>

Frumious Bandersnatch · Jul 20, 2008

flatworm said:
<snark>
Your brew did not grow cold on its own. That would require a decrease in entropy which, according to the 2nd Law of Creationist Thermodynamics cannot happen anywhere, at any time unless it was deliberately orchestrated by an intelligent force.

So the real question is: Who made your brew go cold?
</snark>

I suppose you are joking but as a pedantic old professor I am strangely compelled to point out that it the second law of themodynamics that explains why the brew goes "cold", that is equilibrates to the temperature of the room and why it can't spontaneously absorb heat from the air in the room to increase in temperature again after it equilibrates (except for tiny local fluctuations)

Frumious Bandersnatch · Jul 20, 2008

AV1611VET said:
That's because it's always "hot."

Since temperature is nothing more than the average amount of kinetic energy in an object, your tea never "went cold" on the Kelvin Scale.

Could it be that you are not as "clueless" about science as you often profess to be?

AV1611VET · Jul 20, 2008

Frumious Bandersnatch said:
Could it be that you are not as "clueless" about science as you often profess to be?

I just took a lucky guess ---

Lazuline · Jul 20, 2008

This is why I prefer coffee.

Grega · Jul 21, 2008

AV1611VET said:
That's because it's always "hot."

Since temperature is nothing more than the average amount of kinetic energy in an object, your tea never "went cold" on the Kelvin Scale.

Ah but there is still certainly a point in the colloquial sense of the words that my brew changes from being hot to being cold....and for the life in me I cannot notice the precise moment at which this change happens

Grega · Jul 21, 2008

flatworm said:
<snark>
Your brew did not grow cold on its own. That would require a decrease in entropy which, according to the 2nd Law of Creationist Thermodynamics cannot happen anywhere, at any time unless it was deliberately orchestrated by an intelligent force.

So the real question is: Who made your brew go cold?
</snark>

precisely!!

...given that creationist science is correct, I am compelled to ask who is making it cold; and preventing me from seeing this change at exactly the moment it occurs. Also...why me???

TemperateSeaIsland · Jul 21, 2008

It also happens to me and I think I figured out who/what it is....Ghosts!

I have two pieces of evidence

1) Whenever I make tea I see some vapor like apparition floating over my mug/cup.

Ghosts are frequently described in this manner,

and

2) Ghost mythos is full of claims that their presence makes rooms or parts of rooms colder.

It's ghosts they're stealing our tea heat for some nefarious purpose.

pgp_protector · Jul 21, 2008

TemperateSeaIsland said:
It also happens to me and I think I figured out who/what it is....Ghosts!

I have two pieces of evidence

1) Whenever I make tea I see some vapor like apparition floating over my mug/cup.

Ghosts are frequently described in this manner,

and

2) Ghost mythos is full of claims that their presence makes rooms or parts of rooms colder.

It's ghosts they're stealing our tea heat for some nefarious purpose.

So ghost steal heat, if they're storing it for later, maybe one day all the ghost will release all the heat they've stolen at the same time.....

TemperateSeaIsland · Jul 21, 2008

pgp_protector said:
So ghost steal heat, if they're storing it for later, maybe one day all the ghost will release all the heat they've stolen at the same time.....

They're using our own tea heat against us! Once they get all their pieces in place it's.....checkmate!

Cabal · Jul 22, 2008

TemperateSeaIsland said:
It also happens to me and I think I figured out who/what it is....Ghosts!

I have two pieces of evidence

1) Whenever I make tea I see some vapor like apparition floating over my mug/cup.

Ghosts are frequently described in this manner,

and

2) Ghost mythos is full of claims that their presence makes rooms or parts of rooms colder.

It's ghosts they're stealing our tea heat for some nefarious purpose.

Heretic, it's obviously teacup elves. They need refreshment from working in the mines.

Dragar · Jul 22, 2008

The moment you are not looking, God replaces your hot cup of tea with an identical, cold cup of tea.

Hot things do not evolve into cold things. That is completely unbiblical.

Cabal · Jul 22, 2008

I'm more of an "intelligent pouring" believer myself.

Grega · Jul 22, 2008

Dragar said:
The moment you are not looking, God replaces your hot cup of tea with an identical, cold cup of tea.

Hot things do not evolve into cold things. That is completely unbiblical.

See...I thought this myself and is certainly one of the things he could do if he wanted to, but...I tested this by watching my cup real closely one day (didn't look away once) and yet still I found that what had previously been a hot drink was now a cold drink instead, I never even saw a blip!

Though I suppose he could have been waiting for my conciousness to lapse and seized the moment.

To test this hypothesis I shall pray to God whilst staring at my brew so that whilst he is busy answering my prayers he won't have time to switch my brews around.

Grega · Jul 22, 2008

TemperateSeaIsland said:
It also happens to me and I think I figured out who/what it is....Ghosts!

I have two pieces of evidence

1) Whenever I make tea I see some vapor like apparition floating over my mug/cup.

Ghosts are frequently described in this manner,

and

2) Ghost mythos is full of claims that their presence makes rooms or parts of rooms colder.

It's ghosts they're stealing our tea heat for some nefarious purpose.

Interesting! Certainly a feasible explanation given that some of the ghosts might have been avid tea drinkers when they were alive...this merits further investigation

AintNoMonkey · Jul 22, 2008

This thread is so full of win that this post is the least winning of all the posts in the thread. And it has a kitten in it.

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