According to the standard radiation paradigm cooling radiation does not exist. The paradigm teaches that whenever we think we have observed cooling radiation we have mistaken an apparent phenomena for a real phenomena. However, we should not have to appeal to a paradigm to include or exclude ideas about radiation. Instead we should be able to design and build an apparatus which can unambiguously differentiate between apparent cooling radiation and real cooling radiation.
Currently this paradigm is so deeply rooted in the minds of most scientists who study and manipulate radiation, that even if such an apparatus were accidently built and used, it is likely the scientific community would fail to recognise the theory had been contradicted by nature. The scientific community would continue to frame and explain the results using the old paradigm rather than the truth, because it is not unusal for a false theory to continue to be useful in many contexts. Only a pathbreaking technology that was explicitly designed using the new pardigm to achieve results that would be unattainable within the old paradigm would be capable of reorienting the scientific community towards the truth. Dream on. Harry
