Just wanna give this a +1 as someone who went through two years of back pain, then was cured inside a week after reading Sarno’s Healing Back Pain.

I’d tried months of PT, dozens of yoga classes, corticosteroid injections, NSAIDs, etc. and had no luck. The book guidance is what did finally did the trick and has kept issues at bay ever since.

I know it’s not exactly what you’re after, but have you tried holding your breath or a few rounds of trying to breathe sharply?

YMMV but I find I can break out pretty easily.

Yeah, that’s fair.

I was focused on the marginal effect no matter how small, but you’re right that heat of solvation for gases is minuscule. I’m won over on the idea that it would be outweighed by cooling effect of gas expansion from fart decompression.

We need a room calorimeter and a lot of beans.

Care to elaborate on your stance?

I didn’t take shartery into account, but that’s a great point.

Yeah, you’re right — there would be some cooling from pressure release.

I might need to do some math tonight.

In a nutshell, the bonds in question are intermolecular forces, not bonds between atoms within a molecule.

The act of mixing fart into air is an exothermic process that does in fact explicitly generate heat. You can read up here if curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_change_of_solution

Granted, it’s not intuitive without getting deep into the weeds of thermodynamics, but when different molecules that are attracted to one another get mixed, that combined form is a state with lower chemical potential energy than the original substances would have if left separate. I.e. you’d need to invest energy to break up the intermolecular attractions if you wanted to re-separate the molecules. The potential energy “lost” in the process of mixing is extruded in the form of heat.

I have a degree in physics and work in biomed R&D. I am a qualified fart scientist — this is what I live for.

Top comment is wrong: the short answer to the post title is a hard “yes” due to enthalpy of solvation. The process of fart mixing into ambient air generates heat.

The answer to your followup question would require some modeling — with the main factors being fart composition, body mass, thermal gradient, and room size.

For anyone who missed it, the Windows Terminal team is infamous for claiming that it would require PhD level expertise to implement some basic optimizations suggested in a Github thread. Within a few hours, another developer countered that claim by submitting a functioning PR with said improvements implemented.

Windows Terminal team lead Dustin Howett then went on to double down on the original claim that said optimizations were unfeasable, and publicly attacked the author of the original suggestion thread on Hacker News. He issued an extremely half-assed apology and is still a Micro$haft employee to this day.

https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/it-takes-a-phd-to-develop-that/