Every creative process involves a\u00a0working heat and with it a change in the state of reality.<\/p>\n
A short lecture on physics. Don’t panic. I will be breaf. This is just a short grounding for the metaphor which gives\u00a0 this blog its name…\u00a0 wich is in fact an\u00a0 beautiful metaphor.<\/p>\n
It is called latent heat<\/em>, the energy that you would need to make a substance change its state of matter, for example, melting ice or boiling water. What it curious is that this latent heat is only used in the change of phase: during this process, in spite of the contribution of heat, there is no change in the temperature of the body. This, which had confused scientists for years, is why they were caused to distinguish bewteen this perceptible heat, sensible hea<\/em>t, and this other one, hidden to termomethers but consistent with the equations, which they called latent heat<\/em>.\u00a0 The term latent heat, first introduced by the scotish chemist Joseph Black in 1761, was derived from Latens, Latentis<\/em>, participle present forn of the Latin verb latere, to hide.<\/em><\/p>\n Equally, when the reverse process takes place, when steam condenses or liquids solidifies, the bodies give up heat to the room. I.e. this hidden heat reappears again and returns in the form of sensible heat<\/em>, visible again to people and thermometers.\u00a0 That is why, when on a cold day it suddenly starts raining, the day gets a little less cold. The rain gives back the heat that it took with it during the evaporation.<\/p>\n Today, there are machines, such as domestic heating systems, that can take this latent heat<\/em>\u00a0 \u2013 this hidden heat \u2013 unmask it, turn it into available sensible heat<\/em> and spread it in our rooms. A cozy winter evening at home\u00a0 reading evening, watching films,\u00a0 playing board games or writing a blog while enjoyng a heat that only moments before was hidden, stored like a cache in the state of matter-…\u00a0 Quite a big step further in terms of energy efficiency technologies.<\/p>\n I use this example like any other. But do not let yourselves be impressed – or yes, do, behold and wonder –\u00a0 because this, which seems extraordinary, actually happens every day, in everydaylife, from our heating systems to our noodle soup, from our Cuba Libre\u2019s ice to the sweat that evaporates in our skins, carrying away the exces heat of our bodies in the warmest summer evenings.<\/p>\n Every creative process involves a working heat, which could brings (or at least should bring) a change in the state of reality. Then, why wouldn\u00b4t our creativity aspire to this efficiency?<\/strong> In other words: Why shouldn\u00b4t we search further, through creative processes, to find, reveal and experience the energy that hides, latent, in creativity and its power to change of state of things?<\/strong><\/p>\n Latent: 20130910\/BE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every creative process involves a\u00a0working heat and with it a change in the state of reality. A short lecture on Continue reading