Absolute Zero
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Enmos
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Absolutely.
Note:
The point where all atomic motion is stopped. True absolute zero can never be reached though due to quantum effects (we would know the atoms exact position and momentum and this is verboten).
The point where all atomic motion is stopped. True absolute zero can never be reached though due to quantum effects (we would know the atoms exact position and momentum and this is verboten).
Not sub atomic. But yes, your atoms and molecules are still moving plenty.
What?
Quit saying subatomic. It's atomic. Subatomic are the particles that make up atoms, among other things.
Because you still have a temperature well above absolute zero when frozen in liquid nitrogen at ~ -196C. This is still "hot" compared to -273C.
Yes, he's wrong.
Err... probably not...
All molecules have a specific temperature at which they freeze. At room temperature, iron is frozen, while water is a liquid. At 0C, water will freeze.
Temperature is nothing more than a measure of the amount of kinetic energy the molecules in a thing posess. Solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas all have a temperature.
As you remove energy from a thing by lowering its temperature, you are slowing down the molecules. This is where absolute zero comes into play. How can anything move slower than dead stop? It can't. This is the temperature where all molecular motion is as stopped as it can be. Dead stop. Quantum issues can prevent you from getting to true absolute zero, but you can get asymptotically close.
Questions?
Absolutely.
No kinetic energy - energy of motion. Matter still has an energy equivalent of E = mc[sup]2[/sup] in it's rest frame.
Enmos
Valued Senior Member
So electrons never stop, not even at 0 K ?
what does asymptoblah mean?
Is there anywhere in the universe where its thought to be absolute zero?
No. Not that they are moving anyway in the way you might think of it. Electrons in orbitals are more like standing waves of probability than moving particles.