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--- name: heat slug: heat type: thermodynamic phenomenon / mood / warning status: running version: 4.6B.0 (since stellar formation) released: "~13,800,000,000 BCE" maintainer: entropy dependencies: - matter - energy-gradient - [the sun](/the-sun) - molecular agitation - proximity license: Unlicensed. Cannot be owned. Has tried to be. tags: - physics - sensation - summer - urgency - combustion - desire-adjacent ---
Molecules, refusing to be still.
Energy enters a system. Particles quicken. They push against each other like strangers in a narrow hall. The pushing spreads. Whatever was cold becomes less certain of itself. This is conduction: touch as transmission. This is radiation: distance meaning nothing. This is convection: the warm rising, always, because it has become too light to stay.
The body reads it before the mind does. Skin first. Then the slow bloom inward.
heat:
source: [fire, friction, grief, noon, engine, argument]
unit: kelvin | celsius | fahrenheit | "too much"
direction: always outward
ceiling: ~1.416e32 K # Planck temperature. Things get weird here.
floor: 0 K # Absolute zero. Theoretical. Nothing actually rests.
persistence: varies
warnings:
- do not mistake warmth for safety
- sources compound
| Code | Meaning |
|---|---|
HEAT_001 | Source unlocatable. You feel it, but cannot name where from. |
HEAT_002 | Feedback loop. One surface warms another warms another. |
HEAT_003 | Sudden drop after removal. Perceived as cold. Is only absence. |
HEAT_404 | Expected warmth not found. Check source. Check self. |
"It was a hundred and four degrees and we stood in it anyway. That's not stupidity. That's something older." — unverified user report
v1.0 — Big Bang. Heat was everything. Nothing else had loaded yet.v2.x — Stars form. Heat becomes local, purposeful, beautiful at distance.v3.4 — Life develops thermoreception. Heat becomes a feeling, not just a fact.v4.6B — Humans build cities that trap it. Seasons destabilize. climate files its own bug report.