This experiment is pretty uncontrolled and proves nothing.
There are a good number of factors that could affect it.
Take for example the idea, which he mentions, of radiation. It's well known in thermodynamics that heat flows more quickly in the presence of a larger temperature gap.
Given that the hotter end of the metal is shaded, and there is a large light over the cooler end, it makes sense to say that heat would escape more readily into the air on the end that is cooler for that reason.
On the other side, the air is shaded and cooler, thus the warm metal loses heat more readily on the other side.

If you claim to love Science, then this video should not be hard to pick apart. Science not only requires you to make a prediction; you need to test it in a REASONABLE way. That's the step that was left out.

e/ I voted I care, because at least you're questioning things. However, it seems to me that you mock science for it's alleged lack of investigation, then you proceed to not investigate this flawed experiment.

This post was edited by ringo794 on May 12 2016 09:55am

I don't get. Self-luminous moon? Is the suggestion here that the moon glows on its own? If that's the case, why do we ever see a crescent-shaped moon?

Some of the moonlings go on strike?

Hmm... I haven't thought of that. The moon unions wield considerable power.

There's almost 170k videos of people recreating this experiment in a variety of different ways. I took my IR thermometer and wandered around my yard, almost 100% consistent the shade was at least an entire degree warmer.





It is called a "lunar day" according to NOAA.GOV and presents 50 minutes of extra moon exposure.
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/tides/media/supp_tide05.html

AXIOM:
one solar day =360°
360°/24h = 15°h

one lunar day =360°
360°/24.83h = 14.5°h

it follows:
.5°/h x24h
The moon looses 12° per day on the sun.

Confirmation:
12°/day x (lunar cycle)30day = 360°

12° loss per day creates phases of the moon.

Also the 13th century calculators could figure this out before you did.
https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_demos_the_13th_century_astrolabe?language=en





That's called a blood moon.

Why do solar days matter if the moon is self-luminous? What does the sun have to do with anything? I have a light bulb at home that's self-luminous and it never experiences phases.

...cold is produced by the removal/transfer of heat .