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The phys.org article and science paper text are both impenetrable for different reasons (though I don't blame the paper). Can anyone explain this result like I
by andrewflnr 3y ago
The phys.org article and science paper text are both impenetrable for different reasons (though I don't blame the paper). Can anyone explain this result like I have a college degree but not in physics? I'm especially interested in what the actual difference in "microscopic" process is between heating and cooling.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoThey experimentally demonstrated that it takes significantly more energy to move a microparticle the same distance when cooled than the amount of energy it would take when heated.
- albertgoeswoof 3y agoCold things are harder to move than hot things
- kamray23 3y agoHow can that be possible, though?
- AYBABTME 3y agoIf something is already bumping around randomly, all you need to do is constrain the bumping along some dimensions and it will move less randomly and more frequently toward the remaining free dimensions. That's easier than having to provide all the energy to do the movement directly.
- quux 3y agoConstrained energy basically acts as mass right? So would an intuitive way to think of this be that the warm particle has more energy, but moving it confines where that energy can be so it behaves as if it has more mass?