If you could cool an object to 0 Kelvin...

[Phasmid]

would time effectively stop for that object?

 

[Heneni]

Well lets see, if you could cool it down to zero kalvin, it would stop to vibrate entirely. It would still have latent energy though, wouldnt it? Therefore since it would still have latent energy it would still exist. But if it had no energy it would cease to exist since there is nothing that does not exist that does not have energy. So if the complete amount of energy (latent) was gone, it would cease to be and therefore cease to be in time, since it wont occupy any space. I could be WAY off.

What you say?

 

[Phasmid]

I haven't a clue. I just remembered watching someone smash gummy bears using liquid nitrogen. Just made me wonder what would happen at 0 Kelvin. But then I thought since there would be no vibrations within the object that time would effectively stop for it and wondered whether it would shatter if struck... the strike would cause heat energy, but if the object was completely cool perhaps the striking object wouldn't be able to interact with the object... just threw loads of questions...

 

[monta]

I haven't a clue. I just remembered watching someone smash gummy bears using liquid nitrogen. Just made me wonder what would happen at 0 Kelvin. But then I thought since there would be no vibrations within the object that time would effectively stop for it and wondered whether it would shatter if struck... the strike would cause heat energy, but if the object was completely cool perhaps the striking object wouldn't be able to interact with the object... just threw loads of questions...

Isn't it more likely that the object wouldn't be able to maintain it's structure and would dissapate ? (I appreciate fully the irony of trying to find the most likely outcome of an impossible situation )

 

[Heneni]

I haven't a clue. I just remembered watching someone smash gummy bears using liquid nitrogen. Just made me wonder what would happen at 0 Kelvin. But then I thought since there would be no vibrations within the object that time would effectively stop for it and wondered whether it would shatter if struck... the strike would cause heat energy, but if the object was completely cool perhaps the striking object wouldn't be able to interact with the object... just threw loads of questions...

Ohhh if you want to see something REALLLYY cool with gummy bears. Do this.

You need some potassiumperchlorate a test tube and one gummy bear. Then put a teaspoon of the chlorate in a test tube (wide mouth, and one dont wont crack under severe heat) and heat it till it melts. Then put the gummy bear in and stay WAY back. If you have never seen a gummy bear turn into rocket fuel , you wont be dissapointed.

Safety is key - stand back. And remember to remove the flame before you add the gummy bear and DONT point your eye into the testtube when you do.

If you have the chance to do this experiment...give it a go.

Heneni

 

[BucephalusBB]

I love your question!

I would say that time would be the movement between objects or so. 0 Kelvin would mean that within the object time would be rather pointless than non-existant. Taking time as theory that is. If time is the change between situations, the situation wthin that object would remain the same. But as other objects do change around it, the object could still be in that time.
Outside of that object, time could still be applied. The object itself would be a constant within that time. One could still make multiple "screenshots" of that object, but they would be the same.

 

[gnomon]

would time effectively stop for that object?

You should check out this program called the quest for absolute zero.
NOVA | Absolute Zero | TV Program Description | PBS

Doesn't answer your question but you might like it.

My response to the question would be no as I understand time. I'm sure a physicist might give a different response with something to actually back it up. I'll probably go more along with what Bouncing Ball said.

 

[rojse]

No, but it would be interesting to see what happens to the atoms contained within the object - would they retain a memory of their direction of movement or not?

 

[ManTimeForgot]

No, but it would be interesting to see what happens to the atoms contained within the object - would they retain a memory of their direction of movement or not?

Probably, since Bose-Einstein condensates seem to do so...

MTF

 

[Valjean]

Depends -- Define time.

 

[3.14]

wouldn't the suroundings of a 0 kelvin object almost always be warmer?

 

[rojse]

Probably, since Bose-Einstein condensates seem to do so...

Pretend I don't know what that is.

 

[Zephyr]

God damn it science is awesome.

 

[monta]

Pretend I don't know what that is.

It is one of the 5 states of matter beyond solids they have properties which can only be described in scientific terms as wacky, they can slow light down to the residential speed limit, flow without friction, and demonstrate the weirdest elements of quantum mechanics on a scale anyone can see. They are effectively superatoms, groups of atoms that behave as one.

 

[Vile Atheist]

It is one of the 5 states of matter beyond solids they have properties which can only be described in scientific terms as wacky, they can slow light down to the residential speed limit, flow without friction, and demonstrate the weirdest elements of quantum mechanics on a scale anyone can see. They are effectively superatoms, groups of atoms that behave as one.

I may be absolutely high off my rocker, but are you referring to supercritical fluids and such like?

 

[monta]

I may be absolutely high off my rocker, but are you referring to supercritical fluids and such like?

No the other end of the scale Bose-Einstein condensates