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[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Read the article but realized I need to read 5 wikis to understand what the fuck they are talking about

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Come back, @[email protected] thankfully did an eli10 LMAO

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Summary of what you need to know to understand the experiment and the results is in the writeup:

Our knowledge of how heat and electricity interact within materials is rooted in the Seebeck, Peltier, and Thomson effects, all identified during the 1800s.

The Thomson effect causes volumetric heating or cooling when an electric current and a temperature gradient flow in the same direction through a conductor.

Scientists have long theorized that a transverse version of this effect should exist when an electric current, temperature gradient, and magnetic field are applied in orthogonal directions in a conductor.

Remember that heat is just molecular motion/kinetic energy; it’s the relationship between the movement of molecules and electromagnetic radiation that’s being explored here, and there’s only so many ways motion and electron energy states can interact with each other.