Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Jun 2001 19:33:14 +0200 | Subject | Re: temperature standard - global config option? | From | Chris Boot <> |
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Hi,
> Then you must have blown your quantum finals. Royally. ESPECIALLY > after that statement about "temperature is nothing but the movement of > pieces of materie". Not even close, once you get into the quant. > > Mathematically and quantum mechanically, negative absolute > temperatures do exist. In quantum mechanics, temperature is expressed as > probability populations in various quantum states.
Excuse me, but I don't think that we can get computer temperature sensors as we know them to measure temperatures of matter in quantum states. Even if, one day, we built a usable quantum computer which might need temperature measurements, I doubt that the Linux kernel would run on it without being totally rewritten.
Anyhow, I like the discussion. I love anything to do with quantum physics!
-- Chris Boot bootc@worldnet.fr
#define QUESTION ((2b) || (!2b))
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