Re: TI-H: Re: these are surely things to ponder about :-Þ
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Re: TI-H: Re: these are surely things to ponder about :-Þ
Its not a paradigm at all. At 0K, all molecular
motion stops; its like asking someone to go half as
fast as stopped.. chances are they'll laugh at you
or else throw insulting slurs at you. However,
you can never reach 0K because of various
physical constraints of molecular physics.
At 0C, "twice as cold" would be ( 273 / 2)K. Perhaps
a better way to word "twice as cold" is half as hot,
since temperature is directly proportional to
molecular velocity. If you've done any math at
all, you'll realize that if the next day is
one half hotter still, you're at 273 / 4. Continuing
this reasoning yields a limit of 0 -- that is,
even ignoring the constraints of the physical
universe, the mathematical universe proves that
you can always have a day half as hot as the
previous without creating any great
inconsistancy.
To look at things more pragmatically, the question
is rather irrelevant, since at 0K you'll only be
asking that question if you can manage to move your
frozen-solid lungs. :-)
Bryan
Larry G Currie wrote:
>
> I know, I was just explaining the twice as cold as 0 paradigm; where 2*0
> will still be 0 yet twice as cold as zero
> On Thu, 7 May 1998 21:27:35 -0700 gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
> writes:
> >
> >If you convert the unit of temperature into another unit of
> >measurement,
> >you will get the right answer... Thats just like saying you have to
> >use
> >the quadradic formula to do x^2+16+64 when (x+8)(x+8) will work
> >fine... :)
> >
> >>Ooops, It doesn't matter. Either way, 2*0=0 so if it will be twice
> >as
> >>cold tommorw and it is 0 today, it will *still* be 0 tommorow.
> >>Farenheit, Celcius, Rankine, Kelvin, it don't matter.
> >>~Larry C
> >>"Oh Elizabeth this is the biggest one yet!"
> >>Larry1492@juno.com
> >>On Sat, 02 May 1998 20:17:23 -0400 Bryan Rabeler
> >><brabeler@isd.ingham.k12.mi.us> writes:
> >>>
> >>>S43R80 wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> gabe wrote
> >>>>
> >>>> > 4. If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be
> >>>twice
> >>>> > as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
> >>>>
> >>>> >I'm gonna ask my science teacher that one...
> >>>>
> >>>> i did ask my physics teacher...she just laughed at me and walked
> >>>away... :)
> >>>
> >>>zero degrees F or C? :)
> >>>
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