Rumford's used an acoustic model of hot and cold radiation to give equal existence to hot and cold radiation but the acoustic model has serious limitations. I think a hole model would still treat hot radiation as fundamental and cold radiation as only a secondary phenomena.
Moire patterns might be a better way to model hot and cold radiation. Two underlying patterns would interfere to produce spots of light and dark, i.e hot and cold. Moiré Matrix and Penrose Pattern & Figure-ground at ILLUSION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Gd5FWvEP8 Harry Harry On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 6:20 PM Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could the "cold radiation" be considered something like hole carriers in a > semiconductor? > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 1:29 PM H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In my estimation Rumford's theory is the seed of an alternate theory of >> radiation. It could still grow and blossom into a well >> developed mathematical theory of heat. >> >> I am interested in beat theory because it resonants (pun intended) with >> Rumford`s theory of hot and cold radiation, since >> both involve _differences_. A beat frequency is given by the difference >> of two frequencies and in Rumford`s theory two types of differences are >> important.The first is that the relative difference in temperature between >> two bodies determines which body is producing more hot or more cold >> radiation. The second is that the sign and magnitude of the difference >> between the received frequency and the oscillator's frequency determines >> whether the radiation increases or decreases the energy of the oscillator. >> >> Harry >> >
