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11 Oct 2024 11:11:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything  
From: Darren New
Date: 21 Nov 2007 11:43:24
Message: <4744602c$1@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook wrote:
> Not as such; if absolute zero is defined as the temperature at which all 
> molecular motion ceases, 

Actually, the original "absolute zero" was a calculation. If you take a 
litre of gas at 300K and chill it to 150K, it has about half the volume. 
If you chill it to 75K, it has a quarter the volume. Absolute zero was 
postulated as the temperature at which it would have no volume, 
originally, and was recognized as probably not how things would really 
work if you could manage to get things that cold. :-)

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.


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