Is this true? I have always wondered about this.

I have read that people who have been severely burned may feel cold as it happens.

Your talkin quarks and string's, very deep shit, Like big bang stuff.

Interesting question.

You can get burns from ice, so perhaps fire can be cold.
Where is that line from?

It's true, I remember doing an experiment in science class where we suspended a match inside a bunsen burner and it didn't catch fire, even though fire was surrounding it.

You can see a flame has an inner part if you look closely, almost like a yolk, and that part is basically a vacuum, I believe.

Sort of like the eye of a hurricane, I guess.
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who says you can't learn something from a Prince song I am going to look into this further. someone asked where is the line from, it's from Gold.

Meloh9 said:

I always thought it was a great line because it says a lot, and it's a metaphor I've never heard, compared to it's prom queen sister "eye of the hurricane"

it's true.

Meloh9 said:

An Extreme "Ice Burn" Hurts just the same as an Extreme "Fire Burn" it hurts right to the Core!!!!! Extreme Cold or Fire hurt just the same!!!!!

Mabye It means "Fire" as being Popular, Big, Hot
And "Cold" as its not all that Warm, Good, Heartache,Etc

Something like Just cause every thing looks Nice its not
Idono...

Stick your hand in, and tell me!

http://images.google.com/...%26hl%3Den
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mplsmike said:

In the context of the song, that seems about right:

...What's the use of money if U ain't gonna break the mold?
Even at the center of fire there is cold
All that glitters ain't gold
All that glitters ain't gold, mmm...

NDRU

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anon

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I learned something new and interesting here. Thanks guys!

anon said:

yeah exactly, things aren't always as they appear

Once (and this was a pretty long time ago, talkin 9-10 years), turned on a shower & at first the water was so scalding hot that 4 a second actually felt cold! Maybe that's just how we react.
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ReginaCarman said:

apart from if you burn the nerves then you feel nothing no pain apparently it feels cold, at the place i used to work we had a chef who if he burnt himself used to burn it again to kill the nerve ends