• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    It makes more sense in terms of our perception. But from a science perspective Klevin Kelvin makes more sense since you can’t go lower than 0 K and negative temperature doesn’t really make sense, since it’d mean something like negative energy.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Negative absolute temperature is a thing. Lasers exhibit negative temperatures when active, i.e. the lasing medium has a negative temperature expressed in Kelvin. Adding more energy doesn’t increase its entropy, it just turns into more laser light. Any such system with bounded entropy can have a negative thermodynamic temperature.

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        21 year ago

        I had a suspicion there was going to be a response like this. Never heard of it but sounds very interesting.
        I doubt I’ll properly understand it without a good YouTube video. I shall embark on a search

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      31 year ago

      Yeah but from an every day perspective you’ve basically got 250 or so units there for no reason.