Which one will we achieve first, or will we never be able to accomplish either of them?
Discuss.
Absolute zero, we've been close within fractions of a degree.
Light speed is still a while off.
Sorry. I guess I should have been more specific. With light speed I didn't mean sending ourselves at light speed, but anything. As I understand it, they've gotten very close with the LHC.
Light speed has been achieved...
FIRE GOOD!
(going to turn on my in-home photon generator now)
Quote from: "Ihateyoumike"Which one will we achieve first, or will we never be able to accomplish either of them?
Discuss.
Neither.
Accelerating anything with mass to
c in spacetime is prohibited by the geometry of spacetime, and absolute zero is prohibited by the uncertainty principle.
Quote from: "skwurll"Absolute zero, we've been close within fractions of a degree.
Light speed is still a while off.
That is exciting! There is a statue of Lord Kelvin himself at my University and is mentioned often in my lectures. We have not touched upon recent experiments yet.
Quote from: "hackenslash"Quote from: "Ihateyoumike"Which one will we achieve first, or will we never be able to accomplish either of them?
Discuss.
Neither.
Accelerating anything with mass to c in spacetime is prohibited by the geometry of spacetime, and absolute zero is prohibited by the uncertainty principle.
+1. c speed (for massive objects) is prohibited by relativity, and the third law of thermodynamics prohibits reaching absolute zero, as well as the Uncertainty principle.
Of course, having said that, once people thought you couldn't go faster than sound.
Also I like the way the laws of thermodynamics were conceived, we had the first two, then the third, then the zeroth, it's delightfully slapdash.