so, by "colder spots can be made", he means the .1 degree?
The colder spots that could be made on Earth are within Earth's atmosphere, as distinct from being an object in space.
Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Jul 07, 2009 6:09:21 am PDT #27738 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Theodosia - Jul 07, 2009 6:09:25 am PDT #27739 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Absolute zero may not be technically possible to reach, since getting all motion to stop... you may be able to get within .001 degree of it, for instance, but you always have that little bit of heat left to suck out.
Gudanov - Jul 07, 2009 6:09:26 am PDT #27740 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Spam comments are annoying. I get an email telling me I've got a comment to moderate on my blog. Then I look at it and it's something like "Hey, great post. I'm looking forward to reading more." Yeah, sure you are, you're a frakking toaster.
Is frakking spelled with 1 or 2 k's. Firefox doesn't recognize either which is wrong. What the hell of nerds made this software if that isn't in the dictionary.
Laura - Jul 07, 2009 6:10:43 am PDT #27741 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I'd vote 1 k considering similar words.
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2009 6:10:56 am PDT #27742 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is frakking spelled with 1 or 2 k's.
Two k's. If there was one k, it would be FRAY-king (long A).
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2009 6:12:36 am PDT #27743 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Temperatures near absolute zero have been achieved with the techniques of laser cooling and magnetic evaporative cooling. In laser cooling, fast-moving atoms are jostled with photons until they slow down to 1/10,000th of a degree Kelvin.
Cool!
Laura - Jul 07, 2009 6:12:51 am PDT #27744 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
You'd think as often as I've seen the word in closed captions I would remember. But not so much.
sarameg - Jul 07, 2009 6:14:10 am PDT #27745 of 30000
You know, if you have to change rooms for a meeting at the last minute, at least leave a note. I'm missing a meeting I should be at simply because I have no clue where it is.
Laura - Jul 07, 2009 6:14:31 am PDT #27746 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Tommyrot is right. 2k [link]
StuntHusband - Jul 07, 2009 6:19:26 am PDT #27747 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
What happens at absolute zero is a mystery; I remember my cosmology/cosmogony classes in college (oy, things have changed in 25 years though) where there was some pretty serious conflict over what happens down there. Would electrons "fall" out of their orbits, lacking any energy to "orbit"? Would all that empty space in an atom go away, as the atom sluggishly contracts upon itself?
As Mr. Henslowe would say, "I don't know! It's a mystery!"
A delicious one.
I seem to recall (from my dabbler's perusal of scientific journals that write in words rather than formulae; I lack the patience to learn the necessary maths) that we've gotten closer than .1C to absolute zero in labs on the surface; chilling a spacecraft at L2 to that degree is a marvel of engineering. Just the control and observational technology to record anything from the instruments would threaten to raise the temperature, so it's being compensated for as well.
I love living in an age when this stuff happens.