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Re:The universe is expanding faster than expected by woko on Monday December 21, 2020 @04:33PM (#25499861)
I think it was a joke about zero Kelvin.
Re:The universe is expanding faster than expected by tartoran on Monday December 21, 2020 @06:20PM (#25500936)
I thought of it as being 0k as in empty of information. Kelvin is K but I like this interpretation more.
Re:The universe is expanding faster than expected by brodie on Monday December 21, 2020 @06:25PM (#25500969)
Same thing, really.
Re:The universe is expanding faster than expected by fouc on Monday December 21, 2020 @07:15PM (#25501410)
Zero entropy
Re:The universe is expanding faster than expected by sn41 on Monday December 21, 2020 @08:05PM (#25501724)
Maximum entropy, I think?

I've wondered about this. How can something which is having a cold death (zero kelvin) also have maximum entropy? But I am not at all an expert.

Re:The universe is expanding faster than expected by c1ccccc1 on Monday December 21, 2020 @08:24PM (#25501836)
Maximum entropy merely implies that the temperature everywhere is the same (any other situation would necessarily have a lower entropy). You could in theory have maximum entropy at 1000K. Our universe has a ton of empty space, and not all that much energy, so the temperature at which it equilibriates is very low. It's also expanding, so the hypothetical equilibrium temperature is decreasing all the time.

It's also worth noting that the entropy can be very large, even if the temperature is absolute zero. (You just need a system with a lot of different ground-states that all have the same energy.)

Re:The universe is expanding faster than expected by sn41 on Monday December 21, 2020 @08:31PM (#25501869)
Thanks, this makes sense.
Re:The universe is expanding faster than expected by fouc on Monday December 21, 2020 @11:11PM (#25502758)
Oops. Brain fart :) Maximum entropy indeed
Re:The universe is expanding faster than expected by combatentropy on Monday December 21, 2020 @07:35PM (#25501551)
I thought that entropy was increasing