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Re:Hitting Absolute Zero Has Been Declared Mathematically Im... by parenthephobia on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:07PM (#13878333)
In technical terms temperature is conventionally understood to relate to the average kinetic energy of particles in a region.

If a region contains no particles it would be more accurate to say that it doesn't have a temperature than to say that its temperature is zero.

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