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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? Ah, once more
"Zero Point Energy" rears it's ugly head. So is Quantum Mechanics
still "bunk"? Seems to me that if there is molecular energy
still available at 0 K, then that ISN'T the lowest possible
temperature! A TRUE "lowest temperature" would be when the
aether is frozen solid!

Availability of energy is not the same as energy.

Mark Folsom