If it possible to reach Absolute Zero?

[Viking 0]

Ok i just had this coversation with my dad about reaching Absolute Zero (0ºK, -273.15ºC, or -459.67ºF) do you guys think it is possible to get so cold that it would stop the motion of atoms? Discuss.

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[ifallout 0]

not and tell anyone about it.

Bill

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[ernokaikkonen 0]

Nope.

One can get infinitely close to absolute zero, but can never reach it. The third law of thermodynamics forbids reaching it.

Erno

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Nope.

One can get infinitely close to absolute zero, but can never reach it. The third law of thermodynamics forbids reaching it.

Erno

Yup.

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[ernokaikkonen 0]

>I like your signature...it reminds me of work

Then you'd probably appreciate the work of Scott Adams, the creator of "Dilbert". I just started reading his book "The Dilbert principle" again, and it does remind me of some the places i've worked at...
Erno

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After years of experience I believe that the last truly idiot proof design was the the iron cannon ball

[AggieDave 6]

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After years of experience I believe that the last truly idiot proof design was the the iron cannon ball

You're forgetting about the asshole who dropped it on his foot and was then unable to load it to shoot at the enemy...

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[Scratch 0]

True but even though it has been misused and dropped and generally f@$ked with, it is still a working cannon ball.

[drenaline 0]

yep, last I heard they were something like 0.00034 x 10-9 K

some physics law were made cause in that time they couldn't think of something else and didn't have the technology to prove it (happened to einstein, he was called crazy), a good example of it is the first ripcord pull in skydiving, they thought that you couldn't move in freefall and would never be able to pull the ripcord.

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[SkydiveMonkey 0]

I can't see how this is possible, but isn't there a theory floating round that you can get less than absolute zero?

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[ditch9276 0]

Nope, not in freefall

but if ya think it´s cold, take a thermokombi

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[ernokaikkonen 0]

>but isn't there a theory floating round that you can get less than absolute zero?

See this:http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/neg_temperature.html

I didn't bother to read it, and even if i had, I probably wouldn't have understood it... So I did another search, which yielded an answer marginally more understandable:

http://www.ph.bham.ac.uk/text/physics/admissions/puzzles/temperature.html

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Erno

[Dutchboy 0]

As somone who studied low-temperature condensed matter physics in grad school, I can say it is definitely not possible.

The closer you get, the harder everything becomes. I used to do experiments at millikelvin (.001K) temps. Some of the other experiments were operating at microkelvin temps (.000001K). The really cold stuff took about a month, just to cool it to that temperature. One of my labmates had many months of work ruined when a janitor banged her experiment with a cart and instantly warmed it up.

[jfields 0]

I have to disagree with you, Phil.

Absolute Zero is reached regularly, in the icy stares of women after Clay has just tried a cheesy pickup line on them in a bar....

[gus 1]

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone reaches absolute zero the Universe will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.


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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone reaches absolute zero the Universe will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened

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