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   In sci.astro mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote:   
      
   >>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.   
      
   Then the lowest "temperature" isn't zero energy? Ah, once more   
   "Zero Point Energy" rears it's ugly head. So is Quantum Mechanics   
   still "bunk"? Seems to me that if there is molecular energy   
   still available at 0 K, then that ISN'T the lowest possible   
   temperature! A TRUE "lowest temperature" would be when the   
   aether is frozen solid!   
      
   Bjacoby   
      
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