Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Getting rid of heat is one of the central challenges with modern technology. It doesn’t matter whether the technology is a high-end server CPU or some pathetically anemic processor in a no-brand set-top box, someone has had to think about thermal management. One of the central issues in thermal management is thermal resistance, a material's tendency to limit the flow of heat. The thicker a material, the larger the temperature gradient required to achieve the same amount of cooling because the thermal resistance increases with thickness.
Except when it doesn’t; if the heat is carried by ballistic phonons, then thermal resistance stays constant.
(Score: 2, Funny) by jurov on Sunday March 22 2020, @11:38AM (3 children)
>> Heat diffuses like the stain growing up the wall of a teenager’s bedroom.
...what?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 22 2020, @01:15PM (2 children)
Chris Lee is the physics explainer man at Ars Technica, but he seems to be channeling the spirit of Peter Bright.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday March 22 2020, @02:07PM
I don't get it. You mean that stain on the wall is actually Peter Bright's?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 22 2020, @07:36PM
ArsTechnica got really weird a long, long time ago.