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Why was the paragraph regarding how Absolute Zero cannot be attained removed? I believe this is a valid point in the face of the overwhelming positive media coverage of this highly theoretical concept. [[User:ATB|ATB]] 17:53, 11 March 2007 (EDT)
Why was the paragraph regarding how Absolute Zero cannot be attained removed? I believe this is a valid point in the face of the overwhelming positive media coverage of this highly theoretical concept. [[User:ATB|ATB]] 17:53, 11 March 2007 (EDT)
:The alternative would have been a {{fact}} tag after pretty much each sentence. I would have done so, but pretty much each sentence had only opinions and/or otherwise unencyclopedic bits. It should also be noted that the paragraph was NOT about how it cannot be attained, but rather about how the possibly biased scientific community potentially made up stuff to cover up their lack of tangible proof of its existence. In your universe, these may be equal sentences, but I didn't think so. If you want to write about how the laws of thermodynamics or something show that it cannot be reached (but that you can get very close), be my guest and maybe dig out a source or two since that's non-trivial research. --[[User:Sid 3050|Sid 3050]] 19:18, 11 March 2007 (EDT)
:The alternative would have been a {{fact}} tag after pretty much each sentence. I would have done so, but pretty much each sentence had only opinions and/or otherwise unencyclopedic bits. It should also be noted that the paragraph was NOT about how it cannot be attained, but rather about how the possibly biased scientific community potentially made up stuff to cover up their lack of tangible proof of its existence. In your universe, these may be equal sentences, but I didn't think so. If you want to write about how the laws of thermodynamics or something show that it cannot be reached (but that you can get very close), be my guest and maybe dig out a source or two since that's non-trivial research. --[[User:Sid 3050|Sid 3050]] 19:18, 11 March 2007 (EDT)
::As I understand it, it's the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle that limits the ability of substances to be at absolute zero. You cannot simultaneously know the position and velocity of a particle precisely. Since temperature is molectular motion, and absolute zero is a state of "no molectular motion at all," if you knew the position of a particle and that its temperature was absolute zero, you could in theory violate the Uncertainty Principle under certain circumstances. Since I'm not a physicist, though, I'll leave it to others to write the clarification in the article. <font color=navy>--[[User:JesusSaves|JesusSaves]] 23:17, 11 March 2007 (EDT)</font>