Yeah the headline makes you think it’s even within “normal” temperatures, and then you see that it’s like 10°C below Absolute Zero.
Yeah the headline makes you think it’s even within “normal” temperatures, and then you see that it’s like 10°C below Absolute Zero.
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nitpicky but it’s above absolute zero
CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even if it was somehow 10° below absolute zero, it would still be 10° above absolute zero
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 10 months ago
I thought negative Kelvin were sometimes used to describe very very higher temperatures but I could be wrong.
CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lmao I was kind of making a joke there, it’s an absolute scale so a negative number can’t actually exist, i.e. |-10| = 10
Additionally, temperatures expressed as negative Kelvin aren’t actually negative Kelvin in reality (“reality” meaning the actual physical existence in our material world) because, as you pointed out, the material would actually be more temperate. Negative Kelvin is useful to represent systems where adding energy decreases the entropy of the system, rather than the standard of increasing entropy, but to relate it to the actual heat or energy of the material gets murky.