Thing is this is a Nature paper. I don't think it's really fair to expect scientists to rephrase this discovery differently. Negative temperature is a pretty lo

Thing is this is a Nature paper. I don't think it's really fair to expect scientists to rephrase this discovery differently. Negative temperature is a pretty long standing concept in physics and when a stable system is synthesized in the lab, scientists ought to be free to use the appropriate terminology. Scientists claiming to have found the harry potter invisibility cloak on the other hand.... :)