Of course you can’t reach absolute zero, but theoretically you could go below it, and reach a form of temperature that works opposite to how our temperature works in terms of energy, but… what would it look like? I’m having a little trouble visualizing it. Would my hand heat up or cool down, and would it the negative value just keep rising?
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Temperature isn’t a measure of heat, it’s a measure of how much an atom is moving, or the speed of the atoms within a space, be it a molecule, solution or entity.
Absolute zero (0K) is where atoms don’t move. So there is no movement in atoms at all. Something less than no movement cannot exist. It would be like saying you’ve got a car going in negative mph. You may be going backwards, and feel like you’re traveling at negative speed, but you’re speedometer never goes below 0.
To put it more in terms of science, less than abosulte zero would mean atoms having negative energy, which is also a concept unknown to modern science, which will be why you have difficulty conceptualising it, since something that complex would need some complex mathematics to describe it.
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