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   In article <_PFBb.43014$YJ6.563208@wagner.videotron.net>, "Greg Neill"   
    writes:   
   >"Binary Object"  wrote in message   
   >news:99b2377f.0312091245.276ba801@posting.google.com...   
   >> 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.   
      
   That's inaccurate.   
      
   >  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.   
   >   
   And that's quite wrong.  If a system is at its lowest possible state,   
   it is at zero temperature.   
      
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