363rd book of science for AP--- Metal bed for summer heat with no air conditioner--- test trials to see if healthy and whether it works// engineering by Archimedes Plutonium This is AP's 363rd published book of science published on Internet
Archimedes Plutonium
Metal bed for summer heat with no air conditioner--- test trials to see if healthy and whether it works// engineering
by Archimedes Plutonium
This is AP's 363rd published book of science published on Internet, Plutonium-Atom-Universe,
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Preface: I ended up buying about 6 stainless steel tables from Sam's Club in the decades of 2000 to 2020. They come in a long narrow cardboard box to assemble at home. So the table top is separate from the legs and a under-table for stability. They were sturdy and strong as the reason I bought so many for the house and for the garage for tools. My table top has no sharp corners and measures 60 centimeters by 125 centimeters and about 4 centimeters thick. It is somewhat heavy which is good as it will not be easily moved around as I roll in bed. I used and tested out this table top that took up almost 1/2 of my queen sized bed to see if I can sleep without needing air conditioning. This is August of 2025 as I write and pleased to say it was a resounding success. In fact I removed the table top weeks ago and regret that for we have had some hot nights in August.
I would say I paid $250 for each table, but the savings from air conditioning easily pays that off in just one summer of use. Of course I can restore the table should I so please.
I tested the metal bed for health concerns-- will it harm me or give me a cold. And found that it helps me from getting leg cramps in the morning as I feel a leg cramp coming on and lay the leg on the table and the pain disappears. I suspect the metal acts as a Medical Ice Pack and that is routinely used in medicine. I wanted to see if the metal bed helps for arthritis, for I hear many people claim that copper bracelets help and that too would be a Ice Pack effect. So I have a open chapter in this book for I could not find a person with arthritis to test out.
I had only one bad incident with the metal bed, and I do ___not recommend___ the metal bed to any person who has a-lot of motion while sleeping. One morning I lifted my leg to put on the metal table and sort of put the leg down too fast that it hit my ankle bone. The bone that sticks out on both sides of your foot, prominently stick out. And so the one morning I felt I put my leg down too hard and too fast, and could see the danger of breaking that bone. So if you have worries about breaking the ankle bone, do not use the metal bed.
Other than the ankle bone, the metal bed was a dream for me, as I eagerly awaited each night to get into bed and would sleep on the bed side near the metal table top for it felt like sleeping next to an Ice Cube. Seldom did I have to put much of my body on the surface of metal itself. But there was a limit to temperature in that I could not get back to sleep after a bathroom pee call. I resolved that issue by going to bed earlier so I wake up earlier.
Cover picture: My iphone photograph of my stainless steel tabletop resting a-top my cot in storage awaiting next summer when I install it into about 40% of my queen sized bed.
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Table of Contents
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1) History of my invention of the Metal Bed.
2) How about metal clothing for cooling in Summer?
3) My bedroom in the past.
4) Measuring and comparing temperature of my metal table-top to ambient air temperature.
5) Testing the Metal Bed for health risks-- heart, colds, stiff back, leg cramps, bone breaking.
6) Can I invent a air conditioned clothing of metal for outdoors summer?
7) Does calcium like in shells or bones cool the body?
8) My mistake the steel was 3 degrees Celsius cooler compared to ambient air.
9) Metal pressed against skin is the medical equivalent of the Ice Pack.
10) Temperature limitations, at least for me, is 37 degrees outdoor and 29 degrees C in my bedroom.
11) Conclusions of my 1 year trial of Metal Bed.
12) The fear of cracking your ankle bone for those with motion while sleeping.
13) The very curious formula for rate of heat conduction.
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1) History of my invention of the Metal Bed.
Around Christmas day December 2025, I had a case of Shingles disease. Shingles is the virus that causes chicken-pox in your youth. And the virus never really leaves your body but finds shelter in your nerve cells and other cells. Awaiting for a day in the future for the virus to come out of hiding an again attack the body. It is painful and I read a research article that says Alzheimers is caused by one or both of cold sore virus and shingles virus. I went to get the vaccine for shingles because of the Alzheimers. But even so, I would have gotten the vaccine because shingles is too painful in old age for future recurrence.
So in December 2025, I first thought this pain across my lower belly was due to bed bugs. I inspected my bed and found nothing to indicate that. But to be sure, I took out my Sam's Club nylon cot to sleep on for the night and would go to the hospital come Monday to get it sorted out on what I had. And it was hard sleeping in winter on a metal nylon cot as I felt the cold drafts, even with getting a sleeping bag. It was in this cold night sleep on the cot that I realized--- this is great for summertime heat if the air conditioning is off.
And so, that is how the invention of mine of the Metal Bed got started.
#363 Book--- New Year's gift from AP to world-- cool bed for summertime that needs no air-conditioner // engineering by Archimedes Plutonium
I sensed early on, that if many people use a metal bed, a huge savings on electricity the world over. So I may have invented not only a comfortable sleeping bed, but a worldwide savings on Electrical Energy Use.
#363 AP book--- Metal bed for summer heat with no air conditioner--- test trials to see if healthy and whether it works--- by Archimedes Plutonium
Archimedes Plutonium Dec 24, 2024, 10:32:09 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
This inspiration comes from trying out a Sam's Club nylon fabric cot, I bought over 10 years. It is a aluminum frame covered by nylon. And where air flows freely from underneath of the nylon mesh.
Recently I tried it out and found too many cold drafts even with sleeping bags.
My cot has two shoulder arms that makes it difficult to roll off, made of aluminum.
Metal conducts away heat.
What I am offering is a cot bed in hot summer, when you often need a air-conditioner.
I give this patent free, for at my age I do not seek money. At age 74, I seek humanity, plants and animals make a permanent colony on Europa in the next 1000 years, for our Sun has gone Red Giant and will kill all life on Earth.
The more metal a bed is and free flow air is the coolest bed and saves on electricity. The heat of the human body flows through the cold metal and makes the body feel comfortable.
I used to have a special air-conditioner in my bedroom for summer heat. This year, I am sure I can get by comfortably with this metal cot.
2) How about metal clothing for cooling in Summer?
Archimedes Plutonium Dec 25, 2024, 2:49:48 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
I remember one summer I needed to sleep in the middle of the day but did not want to use my bed. For I only use my bed after a shower or bathe. And now I remember that is why I bought the cot. It was hot, very hot and I slept a long time in heat of that day.
I am anxious for summer this year and my all metal with nylon mesh cot to test out.
Probably we can design and produce a metal cot that is all metal without any nylon mesh. It may be "too cold" even in the midst of summer.
On Tuesday, December 24, 2024 at 10:32:09 PM UTC-6 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
This inspiration comes from trying out a Sam's Club nylon fabric cot, I bought over 10 years ago. It is a aluminum frame covered by nylon. And where air flows freely from underneath of the nylon mesh.
Archimedes Plutonium Jan 31, 2025, 1:50:29 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Unfortunately it is winter time here and will have to do most of the experimentation come this summer.
I have the Sam's Club cot made of aluminum metal with many broad bands of metal and a nylon mesh as the laying surface, very breathable air holes. What makes this coot-bed superb for summer; without needing air conditioning is that much of my body is in contact with the aluminum metal and metal conducts heat away from the body.
I also have many stainless steel tables and will put one of these tabletops in my bed this summer in the heat of summer, and see if I can sleep on one of these table tops without any air conditioning.
Now I am looking forward to making clothing designs which will be cooler than all other clothing in summer. However, I do recognize the fact that "metal clothing outdoors under the sun" is the reverse of indoor metal. In outdoor metal clothing the sun will make the cloth hotter and the body heat is thus increased, not decreased. Perhaps metal clothing is good for under tree cover, such as a jungle.
And what sort of metal would I seek for outdoor jungle use??? Perhaps the nylon mesh becomes cotton mesh and where I place a metallic paint on the cotton, one side of the garment that is next to the skin to transfer heat away from the body.
Now I do notice that in several of my parkas from Columbia have an inner lining of some metallic film. That is to keep heat inside the body. But here I want to see if I can get a metallic paint on cotton mesh that as the skin in summer time touches the metal, the heat is conducted away from the body and cools the body.
I probably will end up concluding that outdoor metal fabrics in Summer are simply a failure, and that cotton by itself is the unsurpassed best. Unless one builds a air conditioned garment which uses some electrical power to supply air conditioning.
3) My bedroom in the past.
Archimedes Plutonium May 13, 2025, 3:04:08 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Alright, in the past, what happened was that I had air conditioning in my bedroom and if my sleep was too hot of a room, I turned on the air conditioner and had a blanket over me, for without a blanket I would get too cold and wake up with stiff muscles, perhaps even a cold sickness.
So now I am willing to give a Metal Bed a try to see if I can dismiss air-conditioning during sleep altogether.
I like to have 12 hours of sleep per day to feel really good and able to think science. With less than 12 hours I am too groggy and foggy.
And that means sleeping through the morning hours. But the morning hours are when the Sun rises and starts to warm things up, especially my bedroom and today it reached 26 degrees Celsius.
So I tested out my idea, only I did not use the stainless steel table for I have not yet dis-assembled the table. That maybe a chore as it rests in plastic grommets from the legs to table top, and I may have trouble in loosening those grommets.
So I used a metal trash can lid that I store books in. So the temperature was reading 26 Celsius, (I still like Centigrade rather than Celsius). So I gave the lid a clean wipe down and put it in the middle of the bed, lid handle top side. I rested my legs near my butt on the lid and had the blanket off to the side. I wanted to feel if I was cool enough to sleep. With my pajamas and night shirt and no blanket, it worked well, and was able to fall asleep even though the room was now 26 C.
But this needs far more testing as to make sure there are no health risks--- cold sickness or stiff muscles.
The way it works is that it simply feels cold on my skin for metal conducts heat far better than living tissue and living body. So the metal conducts heat away from the body.
I am going to have to also experiment with the cot which is nylon but the frame is aluminum and see if that cot works equally well as the bed with metal.
If all goes well, I would save hundreds of dollars from air conditioning in sleeping during summer time. And in fact, if everyone did this for summer sleep, would save the world of much needed electricity.
So on my first test run--- 13May2025, in 26 degree C, a garbage can lid in my bed, worked well and no health problems of cold nor stiff muscles.
The real test will come when the room reaches or approaches 37 degrees Centigrade. You see, there is a big question mark in my mind, that the body feels cool, and feeling cool, does the body then have the brain to burn calories to heat up the body--- defeating my purposes of sleeping comfortably. So this is the big question alongside the health question.
And it will take the whole summer to find out the answers.
Archimedes Plutonium May 14, 2025, 1:35:49 AM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Alright, every home shop and science lab should have a rubber hammer. For it took a rubber hammer to loosen my stainless steel table so that it will be on my queen sized bed so that when I want nice cool sleep without air conditioning I simply roll over part way onto the stainless steel.
The Experiment is on. I want to see if I can eliminate the need for air conditioning while sleeping. A-lot less noise, and a abundant savings in electric bill. If all people did this then we save massive amounts of electricity.
But I have to test to see if healthy or not healthy. I am sure it will work even if the temperature goes above 37 Celsius.
I do not know if the brain sends signals to body "it feels cold" so warm up and whether I then begin to sweat.
So I have the entire Summer to see if this invention is practical and useful.
I am anxious to try it out for the first night.
Good Night !!!
Archimedes Plutonium May 14, 2025, 3:13:39 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Let me briefly summarize this experiment history.
I was with Shingles for the first time in my life in December of 2024. I had never seen shingles before and I first suspected bed-bugs, drinking my blood at nighttime. So I immediately checked my bed, a queen-sized-bed with double mattress. I found no bed bugs but to make sure I got out my cot I bought from Sam's Club some decade ago. The coot was nylon cord on a aluminum frame. No bed-bug can live and hide on that. So as the winter night progressed sleeping on the cot, I kept getting chills from the nylon cords but also from the aluminum arm rests. Whenever my arms were on the arm rests they were chilled.
Shortly after that cot sleep I went to the hospital for a doctor's exam because it was not bed-bugs and thus I learned I had Shingles and join the millions upon millions around the world, mostly elderly who get the Shingles. I wrote a book on my shingles encounter.
But during the attempt to sleep on a cot of nylon wound around a aluminum frame and arm rest, that the idea came to me, that what about summertime and the roaring heat of summer in my bedroom??? If the cot sent chills to my body, surely the stainless steel table top, also bought at Sam's Club a decade ago, in fact I liked them so much that I ended up buying 5 or 6 of these stainless steel top tables. And the top fits onto the 4 legs by plastic grommets, with a under-table for stability which I had to use my rubber hammer to loosen.
I would not use any metal with sharp corners for obviously some night you will cut yourself. My table top has no sharp corners and measures 60 centimeters by 125 centimeters and about 4 centimeters thick although a hollow thickness. It is somewhat heavy which is good as it will not be easily moved around as I roll in bed.
So I placed this stainless steel table top on the side of my queen-sized bed and will only sleep on the table top if the temperature gets really high such as 37 C or more.
Last night 14 May 2025, I tested out my metal bed for the first time. I slept with a blanket-- actually a sleeping bag as blanket on all through the night slept on the mattress side; for the room was comfortable, not hot. By morning with Sunrise and hours later started to heat up the room. First I took off my hat that I sleep in then removed the blanket as it got warmer. Finally I put my back against the edge of the table to get that cold feeling. But it was so cold I needed the blanket again to cover me. Mind you, I was only touching the edge of the table top.
I fell asleep again with touching the edge of the metal table and blanket over me. It feels like touching ice. But this is the same feeling when turning on a bedroom air conditioner that you need to sleep under a blanket or else you get sick with a cold and have stiff muscles, stiff back.
I am sure my metal bed makes a complete substitute for an air conditioner, because I needed to simply touch the edge to cool down my body, and having a blanket, nonetheless.
Now when it gets to be 37 C or worse, I will likely be fully on the metal surface or halfway, for it really feels like a big ice cube. And definitely have my blanket over me.
Some decades back I saw a PBS film documentary of Teddy Roosevelt and his exploration of the Amazon. And the film pointed out the extreme danger that the jungle Amazon can cost you in your life. I remember Teddy got cut in the jungle and the danger there was that there are so many fungus and bacteria and microorganisms that will penetrate the cut and end up killing you. If memory is correct, one of the guides carried Teddy on his back to the nearest hospital. But what I want to add to the story, is that if Teddy's expedition had known of the AP metal bed, that I am sure, Teddy would have taken a metal bed with him into the Amazon jungle and got many good night sleeps.
So I need to check on the health risks this summer, and if those pass my testing. Then the world is ripe and ready for the AP metal bed that saves the world billions of dollars of use in electricity, for a metal bed is a substitute for bedtime air conditioning. In fact, I would not be surprised if all bed manufacturers start designing a portion of the bed to hold a metal plane to use in summertime heat; or, for the tropics, to use all year round.
4) Measuring and comparing temperature of my metal table-top to ambient air temperature.
Archimedes Plutonium May 17, 2025, 2:15:58 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Time to Measure the Temperature of My Metal Stainless Steel Add On to my Bed.
So welcoming was the double rain showers in the past several day, started Thursday 15 May and continued into Friday 16May. If not for that rain I suspect few corn seed would survive.
But along with rain comes cold chilly weather. I had already installed my table top stainless steel table that occupies less than 50% of my king size bed mattress. I would guess 40% of my bed. So that I am able to go the entire summer without nightime air conditioning. Instead, I roll partially over onto the metal table top to get all the cool down I want, even as the room approaches 37 C. But I had not anticipated there being cold snaps before the heat waves of summer arrive.
So I wanted to be sure I would not get sick, so last night I wore a T-shirt with a thick sweater and zipped up my sleeping bag. All night long I subconsciously avoided the metal table top. Although in the morning upon waking, I noticed a draft of cold air from where the sleeping bag was touching the edge of the metal table top. It is as if the table top is a Ice Cube that I am sleeping next to.
While lying in bed, I got the inspiration to measure the temperature over the metal table top and compare with the room temperature. So I got out my thermometer that is a wound up metal thermometer, not a liquid in a glass tube. And I placed it on the metal table top and waited an hour to read the temperature. The room temperature from a different thermometer read 15 C, while the thermometer on my metal stainless steel table top on my bed read 12 C. A difference of 3 degrees Celsius (I prefer Centigrade).
Now the theory behind why it feels like an ice cube is likely to be the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics where heat always goes from hot (my body) to cold (the metal table top). It feels cold because the heat of my body is flowing out onto the table top.
But I think I need to also have some biological mechanism involved, some psychological mechanism to have to account for. What I mean is that our brain thinks the metal is cold. And whether that "thinking" causes the body to then churn up more heat inside us, thinking my body needs to warm up.
So I have a whole entire summer to muse over my metal bed.
I want to be sure it is not a Health risk hazard. I do not want a cold or flu or whatever. And, can I avoid banging my head onto the metal table?????
If all goes well, I never again need Air Conditioning while sleeping, and that is a considerable savings. Plus, I like no noise when I am sleeping and air conditioners are notoriously noisy.
Archimedes Plutonium May 20, 2025, 2:26:43 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
We have had a week long worth of rain with the nighttime temperature dropping to a low of 4 C.
The metal bed works superlatively, meaning it will easily handle 37 degree C, no sweat.
But because it works so well, just its presence in the bed, that it feels like a ice cube, a big ice cube near me, that I removed the metal table top of stainless steel from the bed altogether and await really hot weather. It probably will be the case in future years that I install it only come June, late June when the temperature exceeds 32 C at night or morning.
Just having the blanket cover touching the side of the table is enough to have chills in that section of the blanket and chilling me along with it.
This morning I put one of my knees in pajamas and inside the blanket upon the table top to count the seconds before my leg felt cold. About 10 seconds and could no longer bear it.
So the potential to cool me in the hottest of summer sleep is virtually guaranteed.
What I am testing for now is Health. It could be Too Cold and causing some sickness such as cold, flu or worse yet causes some heart problem. Maybe the heart thinks the body is cold when in reality it is 37 C room temperature.
I am looking to see if a heart risk.
For the time being the stainless steel table top is out of the bed and stored away for a really hot summer night and morning.
5) Testing the Metal Bed for health risks-- heart, colds, stiff back, leg cramps, bone breaking.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 1, 2025, 11:11:24 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
So the cold snap of April and May is gone and the heat wave of June is on. Today reached 30 Celsius and had the air conditioner in the car all day long as I was driving.
So I re-installed my stainless steel table top into my queen sized bed to the corner side. Giving it another wipe down to be clean. Leaving me to sleep on the mattress side and then to cool off, placing half of my arms and legs on the metal if I feel hot.
So far I have found this metal bed works better than I thought it would, too good as it is too cold if the weather is cold.
The test is whether it replaces all summer time air conditioning while sleeping. The savings would be substantial as air conditioning is the most expensive summertime electricity.
I am checking for health issues also. It may cause colds as it feels very cold.
I believe it works by taking heat of the body and conducting that heat into the metal which then dissipates the heat into the surrounding air. It pulls the heat away from my body giving me the sensation of cool cold.
I do not move around much while sleeping so I am not worried of banging into the table top.
So I have something special to look forward to tonight.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 2, 2025, 6:02:20 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
I am happy and proud to report a great sleep last night in my metal bed, 60% mattress and 40% metal. A better sleep than prior sleeps even though higher room temperature without air conditioning.
The reason for the great sleep is that I usually get up 6 times in the morning because of my enlarged prostrate, so that I have a difficult time of Voiding the urine in the bladder. This 6 times to a toilet run interrupts my sleep. No wonder I need 12 hours for good sleep.
But last night, I went only 3 times to a piss call. Could it be that touching the stainless steel table top in my bed made me feel Cool and Cold that I needed not make so many piss calls??? It cut the piss run in half from 6 to 3.
About 5-10 years ago I had problems with leg cramps in early morning before getting out of bed. Terribly painful are leg cramps. And I figured out what causes these leg cramps is that of low blood pressure when sleeping so as I elevate my legs to get out of bed brings on the leg cramp. So I stopped ever elevating my legs upon climbing out of bed.
But I wonder if a metal bed stops or relieves leg cramps.
I find that just laying alongside the metal table, not even on the table, but on its side is enough cooling.
I sleep with a night cap, pajamas and sleeping bag as blanket. I can feel cool cold metal even through the sleeping bag, pajamas. Just laying alongside the metal is enough to cool me although the room temperature is climbing.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 6, 2025, 5:09:52 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Alright, I cannot induce the painful leg cramps I had some 5 or 10 years ago. Perhaps my cancer Liposarcoma contributed to those leg cramps, for which I am now cancer free. And perhaps why I cannot induce them now, at will.
I remember my father wearing copper bracelets on his wrist, some 40-50 years ago. He had arthritic pain in his wrists and claimed it gave him some relief. When I heard of this as a 20 year old, my mind reaction was this is not going to work for it is not scientific. But my father said it helps him.
Looking at that incident now, with AP having a table top stainless steel table lying across 40% of my bed so that I do not need air conditioning this summer. I have a new take on my father's copper bracelets. It helped his pain not because of copper absorbed into skin but because it felt cold to the touch.
The last time I saw people nursing a sick person with cold water was TV show Miss Austen. And medicine does have science knowledge to reduce inflammation by ice packs.
So, well, I contend that my father had the same pain relief of the copper bracelet as if he put a ice pack on his wrists.
I do not know if I will end up with Arthritis in life. So far at age 75, I am arthritis free. If it comes to pass that I end up with Arthritis, probably my Metal Bed will be a relief for me, in addition to being a cold source for lack of air conditioning.
This morning I woke up with having the sleeping bag close to me and only touching the table on its edge. It is so cold that it feels like a gigantic ice cube and I can feel the coldness straight through the sleeping bag and through my pajamas.
It certainly will work this summer when the room temperature gets to 40 celsius.
6) Can I invent a air conditioned clothing of metal for outdoors summer?
Now I thought I might construct a outdoor garment with this metal as air conditioner. But there, the trouble is that if you have metal exposed to sunlight, that the metal feels "hot" not "cold". And besides, summer heat is amply taken care of by wearing cotton clothes that has been made wet with water. Wet cotton clothes has been my air conditioning outside in summer as long as I can remember.
Still, I am thinking of inventing (free to the world and no patent) a Summer Clothes modeled after my metal bed. It would likely be aluminum for it has higher heat conductivity and is lighter than steel--- aluminum pipes and a Cotton T-shirt where the t-shirt has slots to put 3 aluminum pipes. Have to experiment on this.
Breaking News (sort of reminds me of BBC breaking news).
Come to think of it, I use Big stainless steel spoons to scratch my back.
I have one installed right now as I type. Today is not that hot but will carry the spoon around in my back all day long to see how cold it feels all day long.
So then, well, the invention of Clothes that are Self Air Conditioned is about to take place. And would be a lovely conjunction with the Metal Bed.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 6, 2025, 9:23:35 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
My large stainless steel spoon stuck under my T-shirt on my back with suspenders held trousers worked well today. I was mowing the grass with push mower and never broke into a sweat. Although it was not a 40 C degree day, it was warm day. And as soon as I got home the inside was a bit on the warm side but I need not turn on the air conditioner with the spoon still in my back keeping me cool and comfortable.
I later on experimented with a stainless steel cookie plater pressed against my chest by the suspenders and underneath the T-shirt. This was just too too cold.
So, AP invents the modern day Bed in summer without Air Conditioning and AP simultaneously invents the worlds first outdoor Air Conditioning Clothing. All free to the world wide public as I give these inventions for the world to enjoy.
I will look for signs of Health issues as the years go by. The foremost is heart problems because they do Feel Cold. Also the question of can they give you a cold virus. My bed stainless steel table top is a formidable cooling machine for the instant I touch that table sends shivers to my body upon contact.
For clothing, large stainless steel spoons or platters can fit next to the body and held in place by clothing or suspenders.
Why is stainless steel so Cool???? I measured it in Fahrenheit that it was 3 degrees cooler on my thermometer than the surrounding air. But the mechanism on the human body is that metal whisks away heat from the human body, whisks it away and into the surrounding air. Metal conducts heat away from the body and subsequently that portion of the body feels cold.
So I have two inventions to share with the world and important inventions in the savings of much electricity in air conditioning.
But perhaps these two inventions stop ailments and pain also. Perhaps they relieve Leg Cramps and Arthritis.
So far I have not seen any adverse health with these two inventions.
But maybe, in the middle of summer we have a stretch of 40 degree Celsius days and I find myself fully on top of the stainless steel table top and awaken to find myself shivering and contract a cold and a stiff back. Much the same as in a air conditioned room when the blanket falls off.
7) Does calcium like in shells or bones cool the body?
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 7, 2025, 12:18:25 AM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Let us look at this problem of cooling without air conditioner through evolutionary history.
Obviously we needed clothing to stay warm in winter for we surely risk health problems and early death without warm clothing. But the situation of cool clothing was never markedly pronounced until recent times with summers getting hotter and hotter and the human body never evolved to stand this amount of heat.
Some metals are vital to plants and animals such as calcium, sodium, potassium, manganese, iron, etc.
But evolution could not evolve stainless steel made inside bodies of animals or plants. No plant or animal has a armor of a metal other than calcium.
Which causes me to research if calcium is a good cooling agent in Summer.
Iron is in our blood, but I know of no animal or plant that produces iron as a cooling device.
Just because no plant or animal evolved to the point where they can produce and utilize metals for controlling heat does not mean that those metals are harmful in controlling heat. But rather, means, that it was impossible for animals and plants of life on Earth to produce such a thing.
The evolution of hair for warmth, or shivering for warmth was doable, the evolution of making stainless steel as a cooling agent was not do-able.
Days later I would remember I had some sea shells in my garden and garage and would test them for coolness to the touch. And found them to be cool to the touch. Maybe that is why so many animals like to live inside of sea shells.
8) My mistake the steel was 3 degrees Celsius cooler compared to ambient air.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 7, 2025, 1:58:04 AM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
On Friday, June 6, 2025 at 9:23:35 PM UTC-5 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
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Why is stainless steel so Cool???? I measured it in Fahrenheit that it was 3 degrees cooler on my thermometer than the surrounding air. But the mechanism on the human body is that metal whisks away heat from the human body, whisks it away and into the surrounding air. Metal conducts heat away from the body and subsequently that portion of the body feels cold.
So I have two inventions to share with the world and important inventions in the savings of much electricity in air conditioning.
But perhaps these two inventions stop ailments and pain also. Perhaps they relieve Leg Cramps and Arthritis.
Sorry my mistake, I kept all the temperature measures in celsius (centigrade) units. It was 3 degrees cooler in Celsius of my tabletop from the ambient room temperature. Of course you cannot poke a thermometer into a stainless steel table top. 3 degrees cooler is approximately 6 degrees cooler in Fahrenheit.
I can just imagine all the USA people reading this and thinking I am hot with 40 C temperature which is almost freezing in Fahrenheit.
I do not like any unit that is anti-science units.
9) Metal pressed against skin is the medical equivalent of the Ice Pack.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 7, 2025, 3:24:06 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Another mistake-- the last leg cramps--- Nocturnal Leg Cramps was over 10 years ago, not 5 years. For it was 2016 that I had my cancer surgery resection. I pride myself on exactitude and it was before that surgery that I had these painful Nocturnal Leg Cramps.
It could well have been the case that the cancer tumor, size of a small watermelon contributed to my leg cramps. And I was reading that Nocturnal Leg Cramps is common to women in pregnancy. So I kind of am sure that my cancer tumor was a contributing factor to leg cramps and that was over 10 years ago.
Now, I never had Arthritis. But the more and more I reflect on my two inventions (1) stainless steel table top in 40% of my Queen-sized bed (another correction-- I was misinformed that to modern standards, my bed is queen not king sized) (2) stainless steel clothing--- large spoons or trays worn under cotton T-shirt and held in place by suspenders-for-pants.
The more and more I reflect and research these 2 inventions is the realization for me that Stainless Steel pressed next to the skin is nothing more than the Medical Ice Pack, and medicine finds nothing wrong with ice packs.
Modern Medicine uses ice packs to treat swelling, fever, and other conditions.
Stainless Steel is the modern equivalent of a Ice Pack only without the water.
I tried to induce Leg Cramps over the past days but unable to do that. For I wanted to see that if I induced the painful cramp that I could instantly make it go away by putting the calve of the leg onto the stainless steel table top sitting there beside me in bed. It would be like instantly applying a ice pack to the cramp, I am thinking.
I never had arthritis, but if I did, would a ice pack relieve the pain??? And here again, would a stainless steel big spoon or serving tray or tabletop relieve the pain???
I know thousands if not millions of people (my father also) wore or wear copper bracelets thinking it helps their arthritis. And I suspect it is not the copper but the coldness felt and copper is a better heat conductor than is stainless steel. That if my father had worn a copper bracelet is like wearing a Ice Pack.
It is Voodoo science to think copper or some magnetism is helping relieve arthritis, when what is really going on is a metal replacing Ice Pack treatment.
Wearing magnetic bracelets is foolish, for it is the Ice Pack effect of metal as a heat conductor in action.
Today is 7JUN2025 and I went to bed last night thinking only a T-shirt and pajamas with sleeping bag blanket was sufficient, but upon first awakening to take a piss I found myself chilled sleeping next to the Stainless Steel tabletop which takes up 40% of my Queen sized bed (my earlier mistake). So chilled that I put on a sweater, before going back to sleep.
Just the presence of this much stainless steel next to me chills that side of my body, without even any direct contact with the metal.
So, I believe I discovered the modern day Ice Pack without any ice used. And I freely give my two new found inventions to the entire world without any money patents issues. I do not want to make money off of an invention that makes life better for everyone. Just think of all the electricity saved by not having the air conditioner on at night.
I remember a story about my past friend who had recently passed away, H.K. Hancock a geologist and had worked at "Death Valley National Park". He told me the story that he had worked all day in Death Valley and was exhausted and rented a motel room and turned the air conditioner on and fell asleep on the bed without covering up in a blanket. He told me when he awoke- his body was stiff as a board hard time even walking. And sick with a cold.
Here now in 2025, I wonder if K had come to a bed with a stainless steel table top as part of the bed, whether K would have found relief from the extreme heat of Death Valley and found a good night sleep without the danger of air conditioning.
I myself have often awoken from air conditioning and found myself with a cold virus coming on in summer.
Medicine calls it a Dressing or Compress to apply to a wound or swelling inflammation to speed up healing. Instead of Water Ice, I replace it with stainless steel.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 7, 2025, 4:45:00 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Honestly, I do not know of any person who got in trouble for keeping an ice pack pressed to their skin for too long of a time.
I am trying to remember the recent TV drama of Miss Austen on PBS. Was it a ice pack that Jane was administered in the show???
For I question that because we are talking of Jane Austen writer 1775-1817. In modern times we can get ice cubes from the refrigerator freezer, but back in 1817, ice cubes were just not available so easily.
My two inventions-- (1) Stainless Steel Metal bed and (2) Stainless Steel metal worn under a T-shirt in summer heat outdoors or indoors are in a sense--- Ice Packs used in medicine only without water.
I suspect that my inventions also treat Nocturnal Leg Cramps and mild Arthritis as would ice pack treat those disorders.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 7, 2025, 10:16:11 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Why I be flabbergasted again today for I remembered I still had some seashells in the garden, a few saved that I did not give away to ladies who admired them and wanted them.
Yes I saved a few seashells and I have a brownish orange one here on the desk with white stripes about 8 cm long and 4 cm wide at its widest part.
So, I was not expecting it to be cold to the touch but found to my deep surprise it is as cold to the touch inside the shell as is my stainless steel table top. Shells are calcium carbonate CaCO3. Bones are Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2.
So now I am looking for a Chemistry concept that denotes the physical behavior of stainless steel and calcium mineral to feel cool to the touch. The concept is likely to be conduction of heat.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 8, 2025, 5:31:12 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
I had a good night's sleep last night. I even noticed a tiny pain start in my leg when sleeping on my side. A slight pain that never went into a full blown Leg Cramp. I could feel it in my calf muscle, and I quickly slid the leg knee and heel of foot onto the Stainless Steel table top. The pain disappeared immediately and never developed into a Leg Cramp.
So I am looking at this in the idea that the Stainless Steel is a medical ice pack, only without water.
Nothing more than a Medical Ice Pack, there in bed, when and if I need it.
But its greatest function is this summer-- no air conditioning and sleeping next to the ice pack.
Yesterday the Stainless Steel Spoon and then tray under my T-shirt, held in place by suspenders to keep my pants up. That did not work as well as expected. The heat of outdoors soon made the metal not feel cool. But I am not finished experimenting with outdoor stainless steel clothing. Perhaps a tray in back and a tray in front of body will keep me as cool as if I wetted with water all my cotton clothing to let the evaporation cool my body.
There maybe a side advantage also, in that no-one has experimented to my knowledge whether mosquitoes stay away from stainless steel.
If the stainless steel clothing works well and keeps mosquitoes away, then I will have invented a bonanza of good clothing.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 10, 2025, 1:41:34 AM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
So I am wondering if the concept of Thermal Conductivity is the concept that makes stainless steel feel cold to the touch. Looking up tables of this concept shows copper to be 401 and stainless steel to be 16.
Using the formula thermal conductivity = (rate of energy transfer in Watts) *(thickness of material) / (area of thermal conductivity)*(difference in temperature) measured in Watts/(meter*Kelvin).
I suppose my stainless steel table top is so cold, because it is so large and thick compared to a copper clad bottom of a pot which is small in area but copper has a higher heat conduction than stainless steel. If my tabletop were copper instead, it would be far far colder than stainless steel.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 16, 2025, 3:44:22 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
So far the metal bed replacing air conditioning has worked beautifully. I sleep near the edge as the temperature climbed to 27 celsius this morning. The real test for metal bed is when the room temperature reaches 37 Celsius.
I probably need to modify my view of Leg Cramps for I now hear from people that dehydration brings on leg cramps. And I often notice after my bath before bed that I am very thirsty.
I had reckoned the leg cramps were caused by the heart slowing down at night and the blood pressure low in the legs bringing on the cramps as I wake up.
But if dehydration is a major factor, then well, the metal stainless steel is not going to solve dehydration.
I can say, the metal bed so far has not brought on any leg cramps but seems to dissipate a oncoming leg cramp.
What about Arthritis and a metal bed??? I view the metal bed as a **ice pack** and looking to see if arthritis pain is relieved by an ice pack????
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 17, 2025, 3:47:02 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
I found another calcium sea shell in the old garden. And brought it home, washed it up and now using it for testing. I am testing the cold temperature to the touch and comparing it to my stainless steel table top that occupies 40% of my bed. The calcium is sea shells is almost as cold as the stainless steel table top.
In the ocean, oxygen is best available in cold water, and I suppose that sea shells enhance living quarters for animals living inside the sea shell.
Animal bones contain calcium, but I wonder to what extent being a conductor of heat--- feeling cool---- has any role in calcium bones. Does bone marrow want a "cool environment"?????
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 18, 2025, 4:06:04 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
The morning of 18JUN2025, I felt a oncoming Leg Cramp and quickly shifted the calf of my right-leg onto the stainless steel table top. Acting as a ice-pack. It stopped the leg cramp from becoming a leg cramp attack.
But I noticed something also, which I failed to notice in the past. The leg-cramp comes at a specific point in the leg. If it always comes at a specific point may imply a alternative cause than that of "dehydration". If a specific point that the leg cramp comes--- suggests Microplastics stuck in that leg calf. I recently read a research article of analysis of brain cadavers and it was found that many particles of Microplastics were found in the brains, enough that if you compacted the amount found would be equivalent to a plastic bottle cap. In other words if you took a plastic bottle cap and shredded it into microscopic plastic is the amount found typically in a human brain.
This would make sense as to a cause of Specific PinPoint Leg Cramps in the Calf of Right Leg. Plastic stuck there in dense muscle and no way of removal.
If Microplastics are indeed a cause of Leg Cramps, would then imply a world wide increase in Leg Cramps due to the world wide increase in Microplastics in the environment. Most of food wrappings is all Plastic and flakes of this plastic inevitably stuck in our bodies.
This of course is a silent Horror Story of our Times.
My metal bed stops the Leg Cramp from becoming a Leg Cramp Attack, but does not cure the underlying problem.
So what about Arthritis???? Does my metal bed as ice pack, relieve Arthritis???? I do not have arthritis so the evaluation is left open.
10) Temperature limitations, at least for me, is 37 degrees outdoor and 29 degrees C in my bedroom.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 20, 2025, 5:43:29 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe
My metal bed is holding up. I am faced with 37 celsius outdoors for the next 3 days. This morning I crawled 1/2 of my body onto the metal bed from my butt down to the legs on the metal and was able to go back to sleep, while still wearing pajamas. I could feel the stainless steel metal did not feel as "cool" as before. It was transferring far more heat away from my body that the table felt __no longer cool__.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 21, 2025, 1:37:23 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Today I found the limitations of the metal bed for my comfort. I could not fall back asleep by 12PM as the outside temperature reaches 39 celsius and my bedroom reaches 29 celsius.
I was comfortable when the outside temperature was 37 celsius and in my bedroom of 27 celsius and could fall back asleep.
I felt a leg cramp coming on and quickly shifted the leg to the metal table top which made it disappear.
So I am going to need a change here, or suffer from lack of my demand of 12 hours of sleep per day. I am going to--- either--- install a window air conditioner before the next session of 37 or higher celsius for outdoors. Or, I must change my going to bed hours be much earlier--- I must now make going to bed much earlier, no later than 12AM.
I would say that the metal bed is good under the condition there is no air conditioning available. But if there is air conditioning available it is going to be uncomfortable when the temperature goes higher than 37 Celsius outdoors. And this is June not even July.
Best solution--- go to bed earlier such as 12AM and wake up 12PM.
Archimedes Plutonium Jun 23, 2025, 9:56:01 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
So these past 3 days have tested the Metal Bed, and the conclusion I came to is that at 29 Celsius is the upper limit of summer sleeping without air conditioning. I fell asleep fine but hours later when I woke up and had to piss and tried to go back to sleep that the room temperature being above 28 Celsius kept me from falling back asleep. I ended up sleeping several hours in the living room with its air conditioner.
So the Metal Bed does have limitations. Maybe if I go to bed earlier will help.
But the heat wave is going away for the next 10 days and can look forward to sleeping in my Metal Bed.
11) Conclusions of my 1 year trial of Metal Bed.
Archimedes Plutonium Jul 23, 2025, 3:44:10 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
My one year trial on Metal Bed is almost over. I find it has met all my conditions of avoiding the use of air conditioner during nighttime sleep and as far as being heath-wise it appears safe. However I do find a problem with my ankle bones that protrude. Either side of my ankle bones cannot relax on the metal stainless steel surface. Only one position of heel of foot on metal is comfortable. A solution for that is a pillow for my feet.
Temperature Range of Comfort
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At 29 degrees Centigrade (Celsius where 0 is freezing and 100 is boiling), at 29C I cannot go back to sleep. As I put most of my body onto the stainless steel table inside my Queen-sized bed, I find the table no longer feels "cool" and the hardness keeps me from falling back asleep.
We have gotten several days this week where the daytime temperature in my bedroom hit 33C.
As for the low point temperature at night where the metal bed is more of a nuisance than any help is 10C. Even though part of my bed is metal free, just the presence of the metal nearby is like a nearby large ice cube and I can feel the "coldness" of that metal nearby.
So when the nighttime temperature starts to fall to 10C sometime this Autumn, I definitely shall remove the stainless steel metal table top and put into storage for next summer.
Actually by mid August I removed the metal tabletop as we had a week of night cool temperature. I regretted that move as several days were hot.
Health Effects
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As far as I can ascertain, I prevented any and all muscle cramps in my leg, whenever I felt one coming on. I quickly shifted the leg onto the metal and the coolness prevented the cramp from developing. Terminated the cramp. I believe it is a Ice Pack Affect that the metal delivers and ice-packs are routine medical procedure.
I do not have arthritis and tried to locate a volunteer with arthritis to test the metal bed for arthritis victims. I do know that many people with arthritis buy copper bands for their wrists and they swear it relieves their pain. Well, a metal bed would be a entire body relief, not just a copper band for the wrists. Here again--- if it works--- would be a Medical Ice Pack Effect on the body suffering from arthritis. To date, 23July2025, I have not found a person with arthritis to take the challenge of sleeping alongside a stainless steel table top (bought at Sam's Club some decades back).
I need to investigate if leg cramps are caused by microplastics in the legs, that cannot ever get out and periodically cause cramps. I find that my own personal leg cramps seem to always come from one specific location on my right leg and a different specific location on my left leg. This specificity of location is an indicia-of-evidence that the cramp is caused by microplastic. And would make sense in that a ice-pack would calm that cramp.
Most concerning is the question on whether the metal bed can affect the heart adversely. And here I look up whether Ice Packs applied have ever affected the heart. I found no evidence that a ice pack treatment in hospital or otherwise have affected the heart.
Money Savings
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It is almost the end of July here, and by September (actually I ended up removing it on 2 August) I will remove the metal table top from my bed. Honestly, every night in this summer, I have looked forward to getting into bed next to my metal table top that quickly puts me to sleep. But can I quantify how much I save in money??? Before this summer, if I felt at all uncomfortable I would turn on the window air conditioner in my bedroom making sure I was well inside my blanket so I did not wake up with a cold or stiff back or neck.
I would estimate according to my electric bills, that I saved this summer approximately $300 to $400 dollars by not using the air conditioner at night. In other words, by using the metal table top, I paid for that table with one summer's use, and paid for the window air conditioner with next summers use.
But the noise alone from a running air conditioner is bad itself. For it is hard to hear someone knocking at the front door, or even a burglar breaking into the house, with a bedroom air conditioner noise.
Archimedes Plutonium Aug 2, 2025, 5:17:55 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Well, I put my metal tabletop into storage for next summer of 2026.
The month of August is a strange month. For every year it rolls around, I feel as though the scent and touch of Winter is about to descend. Probably because the days of sunlight get shorter, and wearing a jacket at night. Even though, August is just the 3rd month of Summer. And there are still plenty of hot days to come in August.
Last night I pulled out my stainless steel tabletop that occupied 40% of my bed, for I no longer need a cool sleep as the nights are cool enough as is 16-19 Celsius. Even woke up with a slight cough, telling me time to move the metal off the bed.
The range of temperatures for the metal bed for me was that at 29 Celsius for a hot morning I could not get back to sleep and for 19 Celsius for a cool night is going to be too cold in bed with the metal nearby.
The Metal Bed worked great for me in 2025 as I never needed to use an air conditioner at night or morning. And it is also a medical relief for leg cramps. But careful to not bump my ankle bones on the metal.
Yes, I remember one morning on putting my leg down too fast on the metal bed hitting my ankle bone-- that bone that protrudes on both sides of your feet, and was scared I might have cracked my ankle bone. So I ___do not recommend the Metal Bed to anyone who has a-lot of nighttime sleeping motion___. You probably will crack your ankle bone.
It is yet to be established if the metal bed helps for arthritis, since I do not have arthritis myself, but have worked out that the metal bed is like a Medical Ice Pack. And have never heard of any faults or complaints with ice packs.
So I storaged away my metal tabletop ready to use next summer. My cover picture of this book shows my metal table top resting on top of my cot in storage.
Archimedes Plutonium Aug 16, 2025, 3:04:23 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
I woke up this morning wishing I still had my metal bed, for it was a hot morning.
August usually has hot days, as I remember going to school in hot days of August.
But we are having more cool nights than hot nights. And besides, the metal tabletop that occupied 40% my bed surface got me through this summer without turning on any air conditioning.
There is still a chapter in this book of experimenting with a metal bed left unanswered, for I could not find a person with arthritis to see if their arthritis is relieved sleeping alongside a metal tabletop in bed.
My metal bed worked wonders on leg cramps, but I need to see if arthritis is also helped.
I came to the conclusion that my metal bed is a large Ice Pack, and medical science often uses ice packs.
12) The fear of cracking your ankle bone for those with motion while sleeping.
Do not use the Metal Bed if you have a-lot of movement sleeping for you may crack your ankle bone. Children especially are easily prone to crack their ankle bone by hitting upon the metal table top.
Any person that has motion in their sleep should not use the metal bed.
Fortunately I sleep with almost no motion, and most often I sleep on my back.
The ankle bone is the Achilles tendon for the metal bed.
If young children wanting relief from the heat in sleeping and use the metal bed, please have grown-ups teach them and instruct them that the child can crack her/his ankle bone easily.
13) The very curious formula for rate of heat conduction.
Archimedes Plutonium Aug 17, 2025, 2:52:07 AM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Let this be my #363 book of science. And let my #364 by that of Sleep, for many fascinating new research on sleep is showing up in the news.
Archimedes Plutonium Aug 19, 2025, 3:52:08 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
The rate of Heat Conduction follows a formula like this.
Q/t = k A (T_1 - T_2) u
Where Q/t is rate of heat transfer
k is thermal conductivity of stainless steel
A is area of stainless steel table top
T_1-T_2 is temperature difference of my body versus table top
u is thickness of stainless steel although my table top is hollow (perhaps area and thickness can be combined)
AP, my logo picture is a scion blue-spruce onto elm rootstock plus some raspberry scion grafted onto elm rootstock in a proof experiment that Reincarnation is real. I am hopeful the gymnosperm spruce takes to the angiosperm elm. Although I probably should have grafted the elm scion to blue spruce rootstock since gymnosperms arrived 365 million years ago, while angiosperms arrived 100 million years ago. I am now grafting elm scion onto blue spruce rootstock in hopes of success.
Archimedes Plutonium Aug 19, 2025, 6:02:40 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Now I am sort of enamored and mystified by this equation of Q/t = k A (T_1 - T_2) u. And please let me tell you why.
On Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 3:52:08 PM UTC-5 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
The rate of Heat Conduction follows a formula like this.
Q/t = k A (T_1 - T_2) u
Where Q/t is rate of heat transfer
k is thermal conductivity of stainless steel
A is area of stainless steel table top
T_1-T_2 is temperature difference of my body versus table top
u is thickness of stainless steel although my table top is hollow (perhaps area and thickness can be combined)
Mystified because in the AP Primal Axiom--- All is Atom and Atoms are nothing but electricity and magnetism, that the highest equation of EM theory is New Ohm's law V = C*B*E and its differential form of
V' = (C*B*E)'
V= voltage
C = current
B = magnetic field
E = electric field
So the highest equations of Physics are of 4 concepts, V, C, B, E.
And yet here in heat transfer it looks as though we have 5 concepts.
And so that makes me question that the A and u should be combined into one concept.
It makes no logical sense that the highest equation in all of Physics V= C*B*E is topped by a heat transfer equation.
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