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Heat flows exclusively from warmer to cooler objects

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Cold isn't an actual entity you can transfer; it's merely an absence. Thermodynamics strictly dictates that energetic heat will forcefully invade lower-energy areas until total miserable equilibrium is reached.

Heat flows exclusively from warmer to cooler objects
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