Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-33486170-20171124080415/@comment-27924662-20171127064957

@killman First of all comparing Heat to electricity is very bad idea. Simply because Heat is disordered-chaos whereas Electricity is lot more ordered. Even if we take your hypothesis of thermo-electrons how would you explain Diamond and silicon are good conductors of Heat. Secondly when heat is involved three process go hand in hand conduction, convection and radiation. Heating Gases is quite tougher because the Heated Gas molecules are replaced by cooler ones via conviction and the process would naturally go on till there is cooler gases every time. Lastly Let's talk about Rock. Let say it has roughly 1200K as ignition temprature. Now in isolation it should easily reach this temperatures and melt however in the real world the pebble would be surrounded several more. That is their are several more targets to which this pebble could transfer heat before reaching its actual ignition temperature(note not melting point since its chemical change, volatile substances would burn way before non volatile ones, like moisture etc) This would result in increase in actual heat required to ignite our pebble.