meaning 热力散播

[Silent]

How should 热力散播 translate in the sentence: 可惜他讲的是热力散播 ?

 

[陳德聰]

Context.

[Nathan Mao]

To me, that says "heat transfer", but I have no idea whether it is by conduction （热传导）, convection （热对流）, or radiation （热辐射）.  

However, I agree with #2 that more context would be helpful, as the phrase in question is merely a topic mentioned in the sentence.

 

It could even be a figurative reference.

[Kamille]

http://www.cosmosbooks.com.hk/topic_3/page_2.asp?bookid=57729

 

 

我跟羅蓮說：「比爾納梵是最好的教授，他從來不當我們是孩子。」
她笑，「可惜他講的是熱力散播。」
我說：「那沒有關係，我可以選他那科。」
她說：「他那科很難，他出的題目也很難，我最怕的，他一說到宇宙線紫外線，我的頭都昏了，你想想，一個原子，有幾層外殼？」
我笑，「第一層叫K層……」
羅蓮說：「好了好了，別背書了，你也是的，這麼窮兇極惡地唸書，但是你算好學生，同學也喜歡你。」
我說：「我對基本的常識有興趣。你想想，原子有什麼不好？我喜歡。」
「納梵下半年教你吧？」
「唔，聖誕之後，他還是教我們的。我不是不喜歡高克先生，他的化學與生物都合理得很，我還是等納梵。」
我們一路走回家，五點鐘，下微雨，一地的落葉，行人大半是學生了，馬路中央塞車。天氣相當冷，我嘴裏呵白氣，穿＃斗篷，既防雨又保暖，羅蓮撐＃傘，遮＃我。

This is one of the few examples of this construction I could find on google. And it's also the context we want.

 

Could it be "heat transfer", like #3 suggests, and more precisely about the warmth we get from stars?

 

Another example that I found on google:

 

詠歎調把酒噴在袖子上,滾下喉嚨的樂斯酒像火山熔岩,熱力散播到她整個胸腔

Looks like it can be translated as "warm up/heat up" in some contexts.

[Silent]

The text Kamille gives in the context I got it from, but imho that offers no clue for the interpretation.

[Kamille]

(I edited, sorry). I think it might be about the nuclear fusion reactions that occur in stars and the warmth that they produce, given the presence of 原子, 外殼 and 紫外線. I can think of no other possible meaning.

[imron]

It's the name of a class taught by a lecturer (Bill Nathan(?) or similar).

 

热力学 is thermodynamics, so my guess for the name of the class would be Thermodynamic Something - maybe Scattering,  or Dissipation, or similar.

 

So, the previous sentence, student A says something like Professor Bill is the best, and then Student B says, it's just a pity he teaches Thermodynamics, because I don't have the head for that.

[Kenny同志]

熱力散播 might be heat dissipation.

 

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v498/n7453/full/nature12183.html

 

http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/21524-nano-thermometer-enables-first-atomic-scale-heat-dissipation-measurements?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+umns-releases+%28University+of+Michigan+News+Service+-+News+Releases%29

 

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/heat+dissipation

[Silent]

I had a problem linking heat and spread.  Heat transfer/thermal radiation or something alike sounds very reasonable and is logical in the scientific context.

 

Thanks for all the responses.