For some time now, I have been casually researching the essence of fire.
And by “casually researching”, I mean asking friends, family and colleagues about it at the office water cooler, or over coffee or even over beers.
And by “the essence of fire”, I mean the flames themselves. Not the chemical change that happens to the wood or fuel. Not the smoke. Not the heat. Just the flames.
Is fire a liquid, solid or gas? How can we define it?
A flame is nothing more than the light and heat released from the chemical reaction happening in the air above the fuel source. The flame doesn’t exist as a substance itself. The reactants are gases though.
Ultimately the only things one ever sees are photons.