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[abyss43]

what ac tually happens when you get to absolute zero ??
I believe it would be the big bag in reverse !!

[ChuckFickens]

everything stops, even on an atomic level.

(and your breath "huffs" really badly)

[dr b]

It would be the "gab gib"? I don't get it......

[jake-the-peg]

No.

Absolute zero is the state in which there is zero energy in a body. There are complicated quantum mechanical reasons why this can never be obtained but you could just think about it as that you would have to wait for ever to see if there was some vibration (energy) in order to measure absolute zero and so you can't reach it.

However some very strange states of matter can occur. One is called the Einstein-Bose condensate. In this the atoms effectively become the same!


This is a seriously brilliant site on things like this. It explains these sort of things in easy to understand chunks and even has interactive mini-games

Have a try

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/tempe rature.html

[factor-fiction]

So what was the Big Bag then?

[gen2]

The Big Bag is what holds the universe together..