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Human beings are quite simple creatures. We live in a linear world. We don’t cope well with non-linear things, like exponential growth etc. (As an example, I keep hearing on TV that the spread of Covid infection has become ‘exponential’. It has never been exponential, anywhere on the planet!! This is merely ill-informed journalists and politicians who don’t understand what an exponential process really is!).
So, trying to ‘judge’ the above temperature-time combination, using only human intuition, is very tricky. Our brains are just not wired up to do that very well!!
Just always keep in mind that a small increase in applied fluence, may result in a LARGE jump in temperature rise in tissues – with consequently, much more damage!
Hope this helps, Mike.
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