I have now donned my cone shaped hat with the
D on the front. I am also standing in the corner of the classroom, fully humiliated in front of the other pupils.
Sir tells me that what I should have said was that the amount of heat lost by a body is proportional to the fourth power of the temperature (K) times the area of the body times the Stefan-Boltzman constant.
He also tells me that the temperature of the universe which "What are you on about. As a vacuum cannot contain any heat by defintion,"
is 4 degrees K.
Apparently I can go to my seat soon