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Old January 27th 07, 01:23 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore Cecil Moore is offline
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Richard Clark wrote:
Are we suppose that electrons in their
orbits at 1°ľK will collapse into the nucleus (permenantly frozen into
inaction) with the final chilling tweak?


From: http://www.calphysics.org/zpe.html

"Zero-point energy is the energy that remains when all other
energy is removed from a system. This behaviour is demonstrated
by, for example, liquid helium. As the temperature is lowered
to absolute zero, helium remains a liquid, rather than freezing
to a solid, owing to the irremovable zero-point energy of its
atomic motions."
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com