- Alan Siddons
To see a world in a grain of sand... - William Blake
While enjoying a recent effect of Global Warming, a week-long blackout brought on by a freak ice-storm which devastated the central Massachusetts region, I had ample opportunity to contemplate how a candle’s flame behaves.
It’s often said that here on the earth’s surface, air convection is the ruling heat-loss mechanism. And how. We’re like fish living at the bottom of an ocean, yet are seldom aware of how our effort to generate heat is constantly thwarted by the very medium we’re breathing.