You are absolutly correct that the heat from the horses back has to be
dissipated to the outside environment, i.e. it must be a dissipative
system. If not it is a conservative system which means all energy is
conserved which imples it would intially be absorbed by the "beads" but
then until the beads reach temperture and then the beads and back would
reach an equalibrum and no cooling - other than a short start up time
would be realized.
There is another puzzling claim that of "bloodflow can increase
at the same time as skin temp is cooling under the pad." It's difficult
to envision the physical mechanism to accomplish this.
There are some issues with this fabric also. Energy is conserved unless
energy is dissipated to the outside or or absorbed from the outside.
The material claims to change the frequency of incident photons. The
energy of a photon is proportional to it's frequency, e.g. an Xray
photon has much more energy than a photon or red light. If this
material in fact does shift frequency then there is a net energy change
which must be either absorbed or supplied. by the environment. It is
unclear that how this energy balance is reached.
It is very easy to test this claim of frequency shift. Put the material
in a black box. Emit it with a low powerd laser and monitor the back
scatter. If this in fact does shift frequency the spectrum of the
backscatter would be much broader than that of the laser and the total
energy would have to be conserved. This could also be tested.
I do not believe that there is any documented evidence that the Krebs
cycle can be impacted by low level photonic energy from outside the
skin. I may be wrong on that, you would be in a much better position to
address that.
Libby & Quentin Llop DVM wrote:
Dear Friends:
I was asked by Richard Sacks of Equipedic, by phone, & others by e-mail to
evaluate the 'science' behind the Equipedic pads.
-- "It is necessary to be noble, and yet take humility as a basis
"It
is necessary to be noble, and yet
take humility as a basis.
It is necessary
to be exalted, and yet take modesty as a foundation."
