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  #1 Leslie Bicknell on 15 Jan 11

   

  Let's further the discussion. If someone comes up with any cool related ideas, feel free to post them [of course, if they aren't cool, then you aren't free to! ;) ]. Here's something that I'm still stuck on: Cooler than "absolute zero". Absolute zero is where there is zero translational kinetic energy (the thing that is necessary for change, as we experience it!). But there is still vibrational energy. Minute oscillations. Does this mean there is no time past "absolute zero"? Is change and movement necessary for "time" to exist?

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Let's further the discussion. If someone comes up with any cool related ideas, feel free to post them [of course, if they aren't cool, then you aren't free to! ;) ]. Here's something that I'm still stuck on: Cooler than "absolute zero". Absolute zero is where there is zero translational kinetic energy (the thing that is necessary for change, as we experience it!). But there is still vibrational energy. Minute oscillations. Does this mean there is no time past "absolute zero"? Is change and movement necessary for "time" to exist?</div>

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  #2 thinkahol * on 16 Jan 11

   

  this was the talk i was cribbing:
  http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_carroll_on_the_arrow_of_time.html

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">this was the talk i was cribbing: <br /> <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_carroll_on_the_arrow_of_time.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_carroll_on_the_arrow_of_time.html</a></div>

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  #3 Leslie Bicknell on 18 Jan 11

   

  I actually watched that when you first emailed it to me. I also sent it out to everyone, so if you didn't get that email, there must have been an error somewhere in the process of sending. Yeah it's pretty good generally speaking, but it didn't really tell me anything new, I've learned pretty much everything he says in my physics classes. Good stuff though.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I actually watched that when you first emailed it to me. I also sent it out to everyone, so if you didn't get that email, there must have been an error somewhere in the process of sending. Yeah it's pretty good generally speaking, but it didn't really tell me anything new, I've learned pretty much everything he says in my physics classes. Good stuff though.</div>

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