The previous several posts concern a hotplate system example, which only considers radiative exchange equilibrium. That is a fundamental concept that you are disputing. You are now trying to distract that topic to different topics and simply answering with your usual mockery. Please stick to the current subject. Focus focus focus.
You haven't been paying attention. Each plate is emitting and absorbing equivalent amounts of radiation energy from the opposite plate. That is what radiative exchange equilibrium is. You are disagreeing by saying there is no radiation because it cancels, and there are no photons being exchanged. That is the topic.
You are digressing to a topic on a non-equilibrium condition. That is not the current topic. Please focus. You are denying radiative exchange equilibrium, and I am answering to that. Equilibrium is the simplest topic in radiative thermodynamics. If you can't understand that, then you can't understand any related topic.
Since you continually mock wiki, these three references are all from Nobel Prize winners and represent the current thought in thermodynamic equilibrium. Einstein's paper is in German, so the third citation is a reference to his ideas.
Wilhelm Wien Nobel Prize speech.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1911/wien-lecture.html
"[Equilibrium state] ... taken as a whole for many atoms in the stationary state, the absorbed energy after all becomes equal to that emitted..."
http://ia700300.us.archive.org/28/items/theoryofheatradi00planrich/theoryofheatradi00planrich.pdf
Max Planck's original paper, page 40:
"...it is evident that, when thermodynamic equilibrium exists, any two bodies or elements of bodies selected at random exchange by radiation equal amounts of heat with each other..."
http://physics.ucsc.edu/~michael/ajpman1.pdf
"3. Extension of Albert Einstein's detailed balance argument to stochastic variables:
... Even in thermal equilibrium, transitions associated with the absorption and emission of photons are occurring continuously... "
All three references refer to radiation being exchanged between two bodies, and not radiation being canceled.
Now it's your turn. Show me some references that say that radiation cancels between objects in thermal equilibrium, and that no photons are exchanged between such bodies.
