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ironphoenix ([personal profile] ironphoenix) wrote2015-12-02 04:26 pm
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Negative temperatures. And not just Celsius or Fahrenheit.

An inverted distribution of particles in available energy states has been created in the lab. This is deeply weird. It looks like thermodynamics-violating weird. If it's real and scalable, it may be world-changing.

[identity profile] dagibbs.livejournal.com 2015-12-02 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That does look deeply weird.

[identity profile] resonant.livejournal.com 2015-12-03 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Immensely weird.

[identity profile] foms.livejournal.com 2015-12-04 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Queerer than we can suppose.