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Subject: Absolute Zero minus 10 degrees... wait, wut?
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Absolute doesn't mean "absolute", and no we're not talking about the vodka, it doesn't have an "e".

Is nothing certain? Is nothing sacred? Is there no standard that we can all look to.... what? Phone call? Tell them I am busy. Who? Heisenberg? Okay.

Hang on a minute.

Hello? Yes. Yes.... Yes. What do you mean indeterminate? Yes. Yes, but... yes. Okay. Thank you. Goodbye. *click*

Nevermind.

  • 01.04.2013 8:44 AM PDT
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We are all going to get banned aren't we?

This is too mind blowing. This is soul blowing!

  • 01.04.2013 8:46 AM PDT

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I'll be honest, that's pretty freaking cool. No pun intended.

  • 01.04.2013 8:47 AM PDT
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It's possible to have less than zero energy? Call me skeptic, but I don't buy this. Wasn't it a year ago we thought we'd beat the speed of light, and realized it was a loose wire?

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I always wondered in absolute zero was quite truly the coldest you could get.. well, mind be blown.

  • 01.04.2013 8:48 AM PDT

So why isn't the temperature of absolute zero just lowered to the new lowest possible temperature then?

  • 01.04.2013 8:49 AM PDT

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Pretty interesting, scientists always think of the cool* things.

*No pun intended

[Edited on 01.04.2013 8:50 AM PST]

  • 01.04.2013 8:49 AM PDT


Posted by: General Dripik
So why isn't the temperature of absolute zero just lowered to the new lowest possible temperature then?


  • 01.04.2013 8:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: ImOnTheDole
It's possible to have less than zero energy? Call me skeptic, but I don't buy this. Wasn't it a year ago we thought we'd beat the speed of light, and realized it was a loose wire?


It's all the strange quantum stuff. Once they say the Q word, I believe it. That stuff is strange.

  • 01.04.2013 8:51 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.


Posted by: General Dripik
So why isn't the temperature of absolute zero just lowered to the new lowest possible temperature then?

The "this one goes to eleven" effect?

  • 01.04.2013 8:51 AM PDT
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Jeez, things are about to get odd.
How I'm understanding it is that absolute zero is when all particles stop moving, vibrating, or doing anything really. Now that we have crossed that, the particles are moving again, but in the opposite way they did before?
So I'm guessing some if not all the properties of an object are changed to the opposite effect?

  • 01.04.2013 8:53 AM PDT
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:)

Was reading this on GAF. I don't understand it completely (terrible at science, sue me), but they didn't go below absolute zero. Hell, we still can't reach absolute zero.

Linky.

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I always wondered in absolute zero was quite truly the coldest you could get.. well, mind be blown.

  • 01.04.2013 8:54 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

It's an atom's way of saying "dude, it is so freaking cold I don't even know HOW I am supposed to behave!"

  • 01.04.2013 8:54 AM PDT


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Posted by: General Dripik
So why isn't the temperature of absolute zero just lowered to the new lowest possible temperature then?

The "this one goes to eleven" effect?


Makes it sound cooler?


lol dammit I just realized what I did.

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  • 01.04.2013 9:00 AM PDT

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Posted by: General Dripik
So why isn't the temperature of absolute zero just lowered to the new lowest possible temperature then?

From the article:

Moving into the sub-absolute zero realm, matter begins to display odd properties. Clouds of atoms drift upwards instead of down, while hte atomic matrix's ability to resist collapsing in on itself echoes the forces causing the universe to expand outwards rather than contracting under the influence of gravity.

Presumably, the change in properties of the atoms are the reason behind considering these temperatures as "sub-absolute zero".

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Great, next we'll find C isn't a constent...

  • 01.04.2013 9:02 AM PDT

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Posted by: ImOnTheDole
It's possible to have less than zero energy? Call me skeptic, but I don't buy this. Wasn't it a year ago we thought we'd beat the speed of light, and realized it was a loose wire?


I'm not sold yet, but interesting nonetheless.

  • 01.04.2013 9:02 AM PDT

I am the Carpet man they talk about... I jump from star to star, I walk it out.

But... that doesn't make any sense.

-blam!- you, science.

  • 01.04.2013 9:03 AM PDT

What are these first person words you speak of?

Just gonna go ahead and post the top two reddit responses.

-There's a difference between having a negative temperature and going below absolute zero. One of the two is possible in certain entropy-based interpretations of temperature, but to my knowledge the other is not.


--Yes! This is the correct explanation. Everyone who is attempting to explain this is dancing around the issue that negative temperature on the Kelvin scale is absolutely not equal to "below zero energy." In fact, in this conformation the energy these particles are exposed to makes the temperature infinitely high, whereas the definition of Kelvin absolute zero is when nothing is moving because there's no -blam!- (classical) energy. It's still a completely theoretical state, because between the rotational and vibrational energy states, there will (tentatively) always be more microstates available than whichever single state a particle happens to be at.
Misleading titles like this are unbelievably frustrating.
Edit: No -blam!- classical energy. Picky picky.

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We should know better, because we are better.

Nice. I wonder what this information can be used for.

  • 01.04.2013 9:10 AM PDT
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I'm gonna finish it. Just like Jigga did to the pyramid.

mind-blam!-

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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.


Posted by: Xd00999
Nice. I wonder what this information can be used for.

Self-chilling beer bottles.

  • 01.04.2013 9:11 AM PDT