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   From: gneillREM@OVE.netcom.ca.retro.com   
      
   "Binary Object"  wrote in message   
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   > Why is absolute zero approximately -460 F, yet the maximum   
   > possible amount of heat is seemingly infinite?  There is   
   > certainly an asymmetry.  Why is there no upper bound for   
   > heat?  Why is there a lower bound for cold?   
      
   Heat is a measure of energy content that results in motion   
   of particles, hence temperature.  No energy, no heat, no   
   temperature.  Can you have less motion than no motion?   
      
   Quantum mechanics says you can't ever completely eliminate   
   tiny jiggles of the constituent particles, so the temperature   
   of a collection of particles can never reach absolute zero.   
      
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