I've thought about this as well, and it never seemed to make sense to
me, that temperatures can be up into the millions of degrees, but can't
go more than 300 degrees below freezing (on the Celsius scale.. 273
degrees if I remember correctly).. As soon as a substance is found
that can be cooled below -273 degrees celsius, or a new cooling
method is found, the Kelvin scale is going to need to be altered, with
a new absolute zero.. I believe this will eventually happen, but I'm
not sure how a lot of people will react to finding out that their
knowledge of temperature might have been wrong.. and anything written
using the Kelvin (or Rankin.. being in Canada, I haven't learned much
about that scale tho.) scale will be incorrect.
About the references to time, from what I understand from physics class,
is anything that is cooled to absolute zero has such a low energy
level that it "falls apart".. is this correct? If this is true, then
matter at this temperature would have no energy.. so no matter.. now
I'm all confused.. if all the energy is taken out of matter, by
cooling it to the lowest possible temperature, will the matter simply
disappear? if so, where does it go to?
1. "dissociates"(?) back into ZPE
2. leaves spacetime
I don't really understand either of these guessed, in light of the
cooling to absolute zero discussion, but I'd be interested in hearing
anyone's thoughts about this.. another thought.. anyone know what
temperature antimatter is? (assuming it could be found in nature..)
pardon me if it sounds like I'm just making wild guesses.. because I am.
;)
> - 500 degrees Kelvin? And you froze it immediately? What would > happen to it?
> At some point I would think that as it cooled, the particles moving
> slower and slower would eventually stop...but then what? Once they've > stopped and you KEEP turning the temperature down and down and > >down.... would they invert?
(unless I'm mistaken, 0 degrees kelvin is the temp at which all atomic
motion stops.. however, if it was cooled below the temp at which all
atoms stopped moving.. who knows.. I'm just rambling..)
ttyl
-Steve
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