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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

tl;dr: heat energy moves in waves

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

... in a superfluid (ie in some substances at very close to absolute zero)

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not investigated yet, if this mechanism is also present in other, non-exotic, media. At least this would qualify some inertia and thus, finite propagation velocity of heat conduction.