In article , writes:
In sci.astro wrote:

Quantum mechanics says you can't ever completely eliminate
tiny jiggles of the constituent particles, so the temperature
of a collection of particles can never reach absolute zero.

And that's quite wrong. If a system is at its lowest possible state,
it is at zero temperature.

Then the lowest "temperature" isn't zero energy?

Lowest energy.

Ah, once more
"Zero Point Energy" rears it's ugly head. So is Quantum Mechanics
still "bunk"?

And how did you reach this conclusion

Seems to me that if there is molecular energy
still available at 0 K, then that ISN'T the lowest possible
temperature!

This is not philosp[hy but physics, so what it "seems" to you is
irrelevant. Temperature has a physical definition and it is *not*
energy.

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