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I have heard that it is extremely cold in space. Yet, how can it be cold if there is no material for which to hold heat? A thermometer would probably register that there is no temperature because there is no heat to transfer to the thermometer for it to measure. Mainly, would a human lose heat in space if there is nothing for his/her body heat to transfer to?

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Monday
11/9/2009
12:00 pm
ICMT Seminar: "Nematic order in Sr_3_Ru_2_O_7_ and triplet superconductivity in Sr_2_RuO_4_"
Speaker: Dr. Srinivas Raghu, Stanford University
Monday
11/9/2009
3:00 pm
HETEP Seminar: "Standard Model Higgs Searches at CDF"
Speaker: Shalhout Zaki Shalhout, Wayne State University
Tuesday
11/10/2009
2:00 pm
Thesis Defense: The Freezing Mechanisms of Perovskite Relaxor Ferroelectrics and the Thermodynamic Stability of their Ferroelectric State
Speaker: Matthew Delgado
Tuesday
11/10/2009
4:00 pm
Astrophysics Colloquium: Sebastian Heinz, U. of Wisconsin: "Black hole exhaust: An environmental impact study of microquasars"
Wednesday
11/11/2009
9:30 am
Thesis Defense: Electrical and Optical Studies on Carbon Nanotube Arrays
Speaker: Taner Ozel

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