What type of geocacher are you?

A temperature is a numerical measure of hot or cold. Its measurement is by detection of heat radiation or particle velocity or kinetic energy, or by the bulk behavior of a thermometric material. It may be calibrated in any of various temperature scales, Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, etc. The fundamental physical definition of temperature is provided by thermodynamics.

Measurements with a small thermometer, or by detection of heat radiation, can show that the temperature of a body of material can vary from time to time and from place to place within it. For example, a lightning bolt can heat a small portion of the atmosphere hotter than the surface of the sun.

The following measurements are possible within the geocaching world. Like the temperature in real life, it depends very much on the location.

• Geocache Junkie
• Power Cacher
• Statistic Cacher
• Hobby Cacher
• Sunday Cacher
• Epicure Cacher
• Guest Cacher
• Adepted Non-Cacher
• Muggle

All sorts of geocachers are possible but it goes from muggle to junkie.

Within a body that exchanges no energy or matter with its surroundings, temperature tends to become spatially uniform as time passes. When a path permeable only to heat is open between two bodies, energy always transfers spontaneously as heat from a hotter body to a colder one. The transfer rate depends on the thermal conductivity of the path or boundary between them. Between two bodies with the same temperature, no heat flows. These bodies are said to be in thermal equilibrium.

The kinetic theory offers a valuable but limited account of the behavior of the materials of macroscopic systems. It indicates the absolute temperature as proportional to the average kinetic energy of the random microscopic motions of their constituent microscopic particles such as electrons, atoms, and molecules.