Is it possible for there to be a temperture below absolute zero? Can you have negative one million degrees?
Negative one million degrees?
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Of course you could have negative one million degrees. It'd just be in a different scale from Celcius or Kelvin.
You belong in the Civil Service.
It's called science. After all, why do you think we have Fahrenheit? It wasn't because some Germans were bored.
I am in the Civil Service and dammit but blabgiver sounded logical there.
I'm inventing a new temperature scale where Room Temp is negative one million degrees.
I believe that one day, you will succeed in destroying the universe.
As our budding civil servant pointed out, you're asking two questions there:
No, by definition. At absolute zero, particles have zero energy. Therefore they cannot lose any energy to reduce their temperature. The concept and term 'absolute zero' is independent of the temperature scale being used. It is 0K, −459.67ºF, −273.15°C. But on all three scales, it is Absolute Zero.
No, by definition. At absolute zero, particles have zero energy. Therefore they cannot lose any energy to reduce their temperature. The concept and term 'absolute zero' is independent of the temperature scale being used. It is 0K, −459.67ºF, −273.15°C. But on all three scales, it is Absolute Zero.
Depends on the scale. As long as Absolute zero is colder than negative one million degrees on your scale, go for it.
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Yes, that's the temperature my Mother in law exists at.
Temperature is about the thermal 'vibration' of matter. At zero Kelvin, the matter has completely stopped vibrating.
"Temperature less than 0 Kelvin" is like saying that something is going "slower than stopped"
It's a nice thought. It reminds me of complex numbers:
Bob: "You can't square root negative one."
Leonard: "Yes I can. I'm defining it as i. It's abstract."
So you can certainly use negative temperatures in calculations and see what happens, but it doesn't necessarily relate to any tangible phenomenon. You'll end up with particle velocities taking complex number values, adding more dimensions to the universe you're working in, and the whole thing might collapse in on itself and be destroyed.
"Temperature less than 0 Kelvin" is like saying that something is going "slower than stopped"
It's a nice thought. It reminds me of complex numbers:
Bob: "You can't square root negative one."
Leonard: "Yes I can. I'm defining it as i. It's abstract."
So you can certainly use negative temperatures in calculations and see what happens, but it doesn't necessarily relate to any tangible phenomenon. You'll end up with particle velocities taking complex number values, adding more dimensions to the universe you're working in, and the whole thing might collapse in on itself and be destroyed.
Except that temperature is a measurement of an actual energy property a molecule has, rather than it's potential to gain more energy - that would be its heat capacity you'd be changing.
Of course not. It's so a book could have a title.
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