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Does that mean it's harder to tell where something is if you know its temperature? (startrek.website)
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[–] 16 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

Actually actually Temperature is expressed as the inverse of the rate of change of entropy with internal energy, which in normal materia in normal states translate to average particles speed, but in extreme cases entropy can start to decrease with increasing energy and vice versa

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Yep, entropy is the key word here. Amount of different possible states -> "random" vectors of inertia + particles speed -> higher temperature. If all the particles were going in the same direction -> lack of different states -> low entropy (which can still be high energy, but measured as low temp). AKA what laser cooling does.

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