Talk:Varme Tyv/@comment-4273152-20150411075305/@comment-4013655-20170308120023

http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13729 This research showed you can net cool something by exchanging heat with the "cold" outer space by making a nanomaterial with correct gaps so that it is unable to absorb the infrared from a hot sunny day (because they are e.g. too small to fit within those gaps to be absorbed)

Using this article, perhaps we can postulate a less pseudoscientific explanation that a Varme Tyv's biology maybe had some kind of nanstructure such that it is unable to absorb heat carried by long wavelength infrared thus it will slowly freeze to death because in a sense the atmosphere is transparent to them and they are directly exchanging heat with outer space. This also explains the hibernaculum well because the body heat of a varme tyv might have just the right wavelength of infrared to be absorbed by their body due to it being comparable with the nanostructure that forms the physiology of this creature, thus they can gain warmth from each other. It also explains why to normal humans a hibernaculum is hot because we human bodies don't filter much of the type of heat that can be absorbed via infrared