eli5: What happens at absolute zero?
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Absolute zero is when atoms have the smallest amount of movement possible.
Furthermore close to it all elements adopt something like a new state.
They become superconduits. Meaning each element becomes a near perfect conduit for electric currents.
This has a wide variety of technical allocations as a lot could be done with it. Like making magnetic hovercraft. But its very costly to reach such low temperatures.
Some elements may reach this state at ca. -200 degrees Celsius already, others must get close to absolute zero.
One could argue there are five states of matter: solid, fluid, gas, plasma (very hot) and superconduit (very cold).
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