• the Rumford Prize, awarded for excellent contributions to the fields of heat and light, is one of the oldest scientific prizes in America?
• instead of simply heating particles, the Migma fusion reactor uses small particle accelerators to initiate a fusion reaction?
• factors affecting the preservation of textiles include ambient heat, light, and humidity, and the presence of pests, airborne chemicals and pollutants?

Facts on topics related to Heat

Energy

• Aristotle's ideas of physics held that because an object could not move without an immediate source of energy, arrows created a vacuum behind them that pushed them through the air?
• cloud-busters claim to use energy from their brain's prefrontal lobe to dissipate clouds?

Physics

• architect Otto Königsberger illustrated his uncle Max Born's popular physics book?
• Abraham Esau was the head of the physics section of the Reich Research Council, Nazi Germany's centralized planning institution for almost all basic and applied research?
• quantum optics is a field of research in physics, dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena of light?
• in physics, a Landau pole is the energy scale where a coupling constant of a quantum field theory becomes infinite?
• in physics, a Trojan wave packet (animation pictured) is a type of wave packet that is nonstationary and nonspreading?
• the boojum phenomenon in superfluidity physics is named after an imaginary monster in a poem by Lewis Carroll?
• the Brazil nut effect, a law of physics, dictates that when a mixture of granular material is shaken the biggest particles end up on the top?