Below Absolute Zero - Boltzmann Distribution In Gas Gets Inverted

Saturday, January 5, 2013 - 12:30 in Physics & Chemistry

On the Kelvin Scale, the absolute temperature used by physicists, it is not possible to get colder than zero degrees kelvin. The physical meaning of the temperature of a gas is determined by chaos, the disordered movement of its particles. The colder the gas, the slower the particles and at zero kelvin (-459.67 F,  -273 C) the particles stop moving and all disorder disappears. That is why it is called absolute zero. read more

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