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To: neverdem

Does this mean absolute zero is lower, is all, or what?


3 posted on 01/04/2013 12:24:33 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane
Not really.

It's a technicality that isn't new. There are certain systems with anomolous "temperatures" because the thermodynamic definition of temperature isn't quite perfectly defined. It's a macroscopic state variable that doesn't completely line up with the microscopic description of reality (and it isn't supposed to, by the way.)

Simplest example I learned in graduate school was: Under the thermodynamic defintion of temperature, a perfect vacuum is at absolute zero because it can provide no heat to any themral reservoir placed in contact with it, no matter how cold. Thus, a vacuum must be "colder" than anything. But at the same time, it must also be at inifinte temperature, because no thermal reservoir, no matter how hot, placed in contact with it can transfer heat to it. So it has to be hotter than anything else. There are a number of these kinds of anomalies.

5 posted on 01/04/2013 12:44:15 AM PST by FredZarguna (Funded by Arab oil money, so you know it's objective and altruistic.)
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To: Tublecane
"Does this mean absolute zero is lower, is all, or what?"

Absolutely relative. Everything is absolutely relative. Except the Bible, which is absolute.

12 posted on 01/04/2013 5:12:33 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Tublecane
It means nothing is absolute at all. Everything is an illusion.
13 posted on 01/04/2013 5:30:40 AM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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