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Re:Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg by eganist on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:04PM (#23405761)
Intuitively I would think so since 0K is a motionless state. By definition everything would be solid because nothing would be capable of e.g. filling a given volume, or for that matter, doing any action at all.

But this isn't my field of expertise.

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Re:Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg by dmitrygr on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:16PM (#23405918)
Complete lack of motion would violate Heisenberg uncertainty principle ("no motion" == "I know both momentum and location with zero uncertainty" and that's not allowed)
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Re:Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg by whatshisface on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:32PM (#23406126)
No, you can have zero momentum. However it comes along with having a position wavefunction that fills the whole universe.
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Re:Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg by interestica on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:38PM (#23407032)
> However it comes along with having a position wavefunction that fills the whole universe.

I love that this sentence exists. Because it's absurd and enlightening at the same time.

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Re:Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg by jandrese on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:46PM (#23407132)
The universe kindly requests that you do not divide by zero.
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Re:Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg by Koshkin on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @08:26PM (#23410873)
Because it does not want to be Bourne Again.
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Re:Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg by rrmm on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:45PM (#23406313)
Hey let's probe the boundary conditions of the universe.
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Re:Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg by NikolaeVarius on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:58PM (#23406494)
The boundary condition is that at some arbitrary point god smacks you and tells you to knock it off
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Re:Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg by nerdponx on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:02PM (#23410039)
Have you ever played The Talos Principle? This is pretty much what happens if you try to walk outside the playable game area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWjUzvLk58o
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Re:Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg by rrmm on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:22PM (#23407533)
Sorry God!
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Re:Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg by outworlder on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @05:41PM (#23409153)
Careful now, you don't want to crash the simulation.

It already slows down when you are moving too fast.

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Re:Oumuamua may be a hydrogen iceberg by dmitrygr on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:54PM (#23406444)
Precisely. But that doesn't work for OP's question since the whole universe isn't at 0K.
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