Field guide No. 601

In an empty sunlit room, the shimmering heat from an old cast-iron radiator rises up the wall in the shape of a glowing staircase. Watch your step, it's hot.

The radiator's impossible staircase

Heat goes up. Literally.

In an empty sunlit room, the shimmering heat from an old cast-iron radiator rises up the wall in the shape of a glowing staircase. Watch your step, it's hot.

Field noteHeat shimmers and is gone. Above this radiator it climbs the wall as a glowing staircase.

Specimen
No. 601
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
An empty sunlit room.
Nearest existing relative
A cast-iron radiator.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking physics