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Re:Hitting Absolute Zero Has Been Declared Mathematically Im... by hughes on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @01:47PM (#13878165)
A perfect vacuum still displays activity in the form of "vacuum energy" - a counterintuitive property of the universe where particles apparently blink into existence for a short duration in otherwise empty space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy

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Re:Hitting Absolute Zero Has Been Declared Mathematically Im... by ScottBurson on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:04PM (#13878818)
Right -- it's probably more accurate to say that a perfect vacuum has no temperature than to say it's at absolute zero.
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Re:Hitting Absolute Zero Has Been Declared Mathematically Im... by AdamN on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:04PM (#13878306)
Wow!
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