XPost: sci.physics, sci.astro   
   From: glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu   
      
   In article <99b2377f.0312091245.276ba801@posting.google.com>,   
   Binary Object  wrote:   
   >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?   
      
   For the same reason that the kinetic energy of a particle can apparantly   
   increase without bound, but can't go lower than zero.   
      
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)