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Originally Posted by Thelonious
Let's say that our universe suddenly underwent a massive transformation. Our universe emerges from it with a temperature of a chilly 0 kelvins. While the universe does retains its shape and composition, mollecular motion has altogether ceased. So, has time "frozen?" In a traditional sense, when everything stops moving, time is said to have stopped as well. But, should this reasoning still apply, we encounter several oddities.
1. At a moment prior to the Big Bang, when space is a true vacuum, the temperature is a given 0 kelvin. Should the said relation of temperature and time be true, the moment of the Big Bang would never actually come, unless, of course, without some kind of extraordinary outside force.
2. Should it be possible to drop the temperature of an object (e.g. a human body) to zero kelvin, then revert the said object to temperature more conducive of life after a certain period of time, then would not the said object have just "traveled" in time relative to everything else in a manner not unlike special relativity? If so, this would make for a much more efficient method of time travel.
One can only imagine the further ramifications if the aforementioned relationship of time and temperature does exist. So, one finds himself stuck at a logical impasse of two possibilities. First, that the relationship of time and temperature does not exist and that time only ceases philosophically, while phyisically it keeps ticking away. Or second, that the relationship of time and temperature does exist and that certain oddities do exist and allow for certain exploits of time. Which is it?
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Sorry to shoot your whole thought problem down before it even starts. Like traveling at
the speed of light with a particle that has mass, is the impossiblity of cooling a piece of
matter (particles with mass) to ABOSLUTE 0 (Degrees Kelvin - 0 K). Just doesn't happen.
You can approach the temperature of 0 K, just not get there. Current technology has
broken the sub mili-Kevlin barrier and approaching the micro-Kelvins as of last year. Still
not 0 though. Thus, there is always a little energy left in a particle. This is the Heisenberg
Uncertaincy Principle at work again.
1. Since no 0 Kelvin, even a "perfect vacumn" would have a temperature above 0 K (even
though space is not really a "perfect" vacumn). Therefore saying much about the instant
of during the Big Bang can not really be inferred because or presence or lack of temperature
of space.
2. Because of no 0 K, on cannot drop an object to it so as to travel somehow for an even
bigger reason.
Time does not slow down with temperature, actvity does. As far as is
know the reference of time is independent of temperature. 
Maddog
