This bothy took some finding but the view was awesome. We cooked our lunch there. The hot pan and the hot kettle were fine to put back in my rucksack after lunch but had been hot enough to burn me earlier. So what happened to the heat? Thermal energy makes atoms wobble more. The atoms in the pan are wobbling violently and that gets atoms in the surroundings wobbling. But there are so many more atoms in the surroundings that each one only gets a very small share of the extra wobble ... so little extra wobble to each one that you can't even tell that their temperature has gone up. We say that the thermal energy has been dissipated. And notice that the pan, the kettle, the stone floor and the air all end up at the same temperature. We say that they are in thermal equilibrium with each other. We did our best but I think that the person who wrote in the visitors' book that it was "b------- freezing" wouldn't have been impressed. But thanks to the MBA people for looking after the bothy so well! It was in great condition.
