>>11787380There are three ways to transfer heat. Conductive surfaces like a heat sink on a CPU. Convective medium like the fan blowing cool air across the fins of the heat sink. Or radiation, such as the big big Sun providing the vast amount of energy hitting the Earth through nothing. There's nothing in between the Sun and the Earth. How does the energy get here?
Time, or relativity, is the medium of thermal transfer. Earth orbits the Sun, right? It does it because it's faster to slow down your clock, move, then speed it back up vs. just moving. You get an extra second. Everything does this to a degree because it's a lot easier than keeping an absolute time.
Sun's really shiny. Earth's really dark. Something that's dark has to store up internal energy first before it gets really shiny. You have a start, you have an end, you have a particle, a photon. When a photon hits, it doesn't matter how many, the intensity. What matters is how shiny it was when it was emitted, the frequency. The internal voltage, the photoelectric effect, acts across the entire object, not just where the light is hitting.
So, nature knows not space. Nature not knows time. Einstein says nature only needs to know photons and photo-electricity. Other people say nature can do to photons what it did before with space and time. Do anything it needs to take the easiest way.
