On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Physicists often do experiemnts on crystals at 0 oK or near there. > There is no such thing as nearly zero just as there is no such thing as nearly infinite or nearly pregnant; the Third law of Thermodynamics says that you can never reach zero degrees Kelvin in a finite number of steps. And Charles's Law was developed long before Quantum Mechanics was discovered and even at the time it was known that it was only a approximation of how real world gasses behaved. Charles's Law worked pretty well at the limited temperature ranges available in the 19'th century. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.