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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

heat is movement of atoms and molecules.

Moving atoms don't physically touch each other. They transfer their momentum with photons. Measuring the heat of a volume of gas is technically the measurement of the number of photon exchanges.