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To: neverdem
If the wind chill factor got to absolute zero would all molecular activity stop or would it just feel like it did?
4 posted on 01/04/2013 12:31:03 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
The article is mistaken.

The absolute zero of temperature is only a point of zero energy in classical physics, which is only an approximation of reality.

In quantum physics it is the point of lowest system energy, which is never zero.

[The simplest, but not always the most correct way to see this is that by the Uncertainty Principle, the ground state of every quantum system that has finite spatial extent (which, for example, descibes anything in our universe) has some non-zero momentum. So "all" motion cannot cease, even at absolute zero.]

6 posted on 01/04/2013 12:51:04 AM PST by FredZarguna (Funded by Arab oil money, so you know it's objective and altruistic.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

If Helen Keller fell down in the woods and no one was around to hear it, would she make a sound?


34 posted on 01/05/2013 11:44:00 AM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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