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Originally Posted by Thelonious
Right, it is only a theoretical temperature, but there are ways that it can be achieved, such as in a pure vacuum.
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Vacumns per se aren't pure, though. However, I remember one experiment (published in
either Science, later Sci Am or Physics Today) that talks about Bose-Einstein Condensate.
Basically the researchers were able to cool down a few atoms so close to 0 that they
behaved as though the expression of 1 atom (synchonized wave function). Another form
of entaglement. This was close to a micro-Kelvin (10^ -6). There was still activity. This
does not mean that clocks would slow down. Time is a constuct we invent.
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Originally Posted by Thelonious
Okay, but you are ignoring the possibility of a relationship. Even if one cannot reach absolute zero, he can get arbitrarily close, just as he can to the speed of light. If something is cooled .0001 kelvins, then aging slows with activity, so is it not fair to say time has slowed in a way akin to that described in the twin paradox?
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No paradox and no need to invent one. There is no relationship. You can believe as you
wish. Doesn't matter.
Maddog
