And lo on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:38:17 -0000, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> did  
spake, saying:

> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Well, the "zero-point energy" is (amongst other things) the remaining
>> jiggle in atoms even at absolute-zero.
>
>   Isn't that kind of contradictory with the very definition of absolute
> zero temperature? By definition if there's movement it's not absolute  
> zero.

To tie this back to your original query the concept of absolute zero  
resided in 'classical' science whereas ZPE belongs in quantum science.  
Once again we have two otherwise accurate methods disagreeing.

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