Re:The Food Lab: The Science of No-Knead Dough (2011)
by djrogers on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:56PM
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I don't believe you're characterizing his thermodynamic explanation accurately - he's simply pointing out that the distance from the source of thermal radiation matters. Since radiant energy follows the inverse square law, this makes perfect sense.
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Re:The Food Lab: The Science of No-Knead Dough (2011)
by ouid on Monday May 15, 2017 @04:07PM
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if there were exactly one point source of radiation it would matter, but there isn't. You have to integrate the cumulative radiation from all the points on the surface. The number of points in a subtended angle goes up as the square of the distance from the bread, and each points' contribution is the inverse square of that distance. This is true uniformly over any subtended arc, so the shape can't matter either. The result only depends on the emissivity of the material.