Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Turn off your flashlight.
Yeah, but I like the Muhammad Ali.
Give me the Muhammad Ali comment.
That's a really good one.
But I think that was a wig he was wearing.
I was so distraught upon learning this.
So I didn't know he came up with that, but it is a well-known means of calculating the rate of temperature change in physics class.
So the way you do it is you have two materials at different temperatures.
And you bring them in contact in some way, either physically, so that atoms are touching each other, or have air molecules bouncing back and forth, or they're radiatively connected.
Connect them in some way.
And then you measure the rate at which the temperature changes so that they reach equilibrium to each other.