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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucdn!stantonk
- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:02:20 EST
- From: Ken <STANTONK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <93007.100220STANTONK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Budding Physicist
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- My seven year old asked me a question that left me scratching my head.
- Since I am not a physicist, I need your help. :^)
- His question started with queries about temperature scales, absolute
- zero and so on. That I could handle. :^) Then, he asked what the MAXIMUM
- possible temperature was, according to theory. My answer was, "What?".
- He explained further to me, "Well, I understand that temperature is a measure
- of the speed of the molecules. And you told me that Einstein's theory
- means that if the molecules were travelling at the speed of light, they
- should be energy, not matter. So, what temperature should that be, according
- to the theory?" And I thought questions like this were only supposed to
- start when they reached age 16 :-/
-
- HELP! Please reply directly to my email address since I don't subscribe
- to this news group. Thanks. Ken Stanton.
-