This has intrested me off and on

**LucidFlanders** · 05-17-2008 02:41 AM

Today is hot outside, my work it's nice and cool. Why does hot not come into the cool and mix together? there is some type of barrier or something so they cannot connect. You walk outside and go through a wall of heat, you go inside you go through a wall of cool. This also works for smells. There can be 5-7 different smells in a few rooms. You walk into a smell, followed by another smell as you keep going, etc. It's like the smells are trapped inside a bubble but you can smell them through the bubble. How does the earth work like this? different pockets of different things or something. Invisible, yet there, yet everywhere.

**Adam** · 05-17-2008 04:24 AM

Do you have aircon?

**LucidFlanders** · 05-17-2008 04:35 AM

Originally Posted by Adam

Do you have aircon?

Yes i do.

**Man of Steel** · 05-17-2008 05:08 AM

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

**Serkat** · 05-17-2008 01:21 PM

I've never had that happen. After I take a dump it's only a matter of time until the smell enters my workspace.

**wasup** · 05-17-2008 03:36 PM

lol...

but are you serious lucid flanders ?

**Bearsy** · 05-17-2008 07:33 PM

This.
Is.
Too.
Much.

**LucidFlanders** · 05-18-2008 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by wasup

lol...

but are you serious lucid flanders ?

Yes. After i made this thread i went to sleep for 1 hour and woke up with the worst pain in my joint. I was laying half way on the bed, the legs half was off the bed hanging in the air.

**Replicon** · 05-18-2008 06:54 PM

Insulation? I mean, it's the same thing as coming home to a warm home from the cold winter weather.

**Umbrasquall** · 05-18-2008 07:10 PM

I think there's some scientific word for the phenomonen.

Also if you notice, at many stores, they have a jet of air blowing across the entrance to the air-conditioned interior of a building. This creates an artifical barrier that serves to prevent convection.

**Kushna Mufeed** · 05-18-2008 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by Umbrasquall

I think there's some scientific word for the phenomonen.

Also if you notice, at many stores, they have a jet of air blowing across the entrance to the air-conditioned interior of a building. This creates an artifical barrier that serves to prevent convection.

I always wondered what that was for.

**Xaqaria** · 05-20-2008 05:20 AM

Well the cold air at your work is pretty easy to explain. The warm air outside would need to sink in order to enter the building; something warm air does not do. There definitely is an exchange of cold and hot air as the wind blows or whatever, but not enough to fill the building; especially if you have ac running.

**Carôusoul** · 05-20-2008 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by LucidFlanders

Today is hot outside, my work it's nice and cool. Why does hot not come into the cool and mix together? there is some type of barrier or something so they cannot connect. You walk outside and go through a wall of heat, you go inside you go through a wall of cool. This also works for smells. There can be 5-7 different smells in a few rooms. You walk into a smell, followed by another smell as you keep going, etc. It's like the smells are trapped inside a bubble but you can smell them through the bubble. How does the earth work like this? different pockets of different things or something. Invisible, yet there, yet everywhere.

I just died a little.

**ChaybaChayba** · 05-21-2008 09:00 AM

This is indeed a phenomena that has already been scientificly explained. Streams don't mix. For example, when two rivers flow together, their water will not mix. The water will stay in seperate streams eventho they are both ending up in the same ocean. It's is the same for air.. check out the weather channel :p