The Road to Absolute Zero

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips, SciLebs on 01 7th, 2008 | one response
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Dr. Russell Donnelly, courtesy of University of Oregon

A new documentary takes a look at the coldest of the cold—absolute zero.

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  1. nk says:
    January 14, 2008 at 12:22 am

    Just being pedantic, but while listening to this episode I remembered that in Physics at school we were told that the Kelvin scale is not referred to in “degrees”. I just confirmed this in Wikipedia (under the entry “Kelvin”) – they changed from using the term “degrees Kelvin” at the:

    13th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in 1967–1968

    Cheers

    Nigel

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