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A curiosity of physics is that you can set up systems with a negative temperature, but you can't ever get to zero temperature, from either direction.
by idlewords 12y ago
A curiosity of physics is that you can set up systems with a negative temperature, but you can't ever get to zero temperature, from either direction.
- waqf 12y agoBut you can get to infinite temperature from either direction. So it's more a curiosity of notation: instead of temperature T, the more natural thermodynamic concept is β = 1/T. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_beta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_beta