>"Normally, most particles have average or near-average energies, with only a few particles zipping around at higher energies. In theory, if the situation is re

>"Normally, most particles have average or near-average energies, with only a few particles zipping around at higher energies. In theory, if the situation is reversed, with more particles having higher, rather than lower, energies, the plot would flip over and the sign of the temperature would change from a positive to a negative absolute temperature." Unless I'm missing something that is complete nonsense. If more particles have higher rather than lower energies the average shifts up and the most particles have average energy with just a few with much more energy. There is nothing to limit the maximum energy of particles like absolute zero on the high end. I didn't read the actual research article, but this fragment reads as the usual disfigurement of actual information commited by a journalist attempting to explain a concept he/she doesn't understand at all.