Scientists cause integer underflow in temperature system
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Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">(or not)</div><a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/121377-Scientists-Chill-Atoms-to-Negative-Temperatures" target="_blank">http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/...ve-Temperatures</a>
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Whereas in a normal system atoms spread out evenly across all available states as energy increases, leading to an increase in entropy, in a negative system the atoms begin to occupy the maximum possible energy state at the same time - leading entropy to decrease as energy increases. This is the point where you've reached negative temperature.
As one scientist put it, "the gas is not colder than zero Kelvin, but hotter. It is even hotter than at any positive temperature - the temperature scale simply does not end at infinity, but jumps to negative values instead."
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<!--QuoteBegin-Comment by one Michael Kerig+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Comment by one Michael Kerig)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->So potentially more evidence for our universe being a simulation?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Whereas in a normal system atoms spread out evenly across all available states as energy increases, leading to an increase in entropy, in a negative system the atoms begin to occupy the maximum possible energy state at the same time - leading entropy to decrease as energy increases. This is the point where you've reached negative temperature.
As one scientist put it, "the gas is not colder than zero Kelvin, but hotter. It is even hotter than at any positive temperature - the temperature scale simply does not end at infinity, but jumps to negative values instead."
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<!--QuoteBegin-Comment by one Michael Kerig+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Comment by one Michael Kerig)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->So potentially more evidence for our universe being a simulation?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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I want my money back or i'm out for good.
However, I think it's more likely that we just don't understand everything yet. ;)
That's pretty awesome, if it's accurate.