What Is Absolute Zero

Many of us think that the term absolute zero meant that nothing can have any temperature lower than 0 Kelvin. However, that may not be true according to some physicists at the Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. They say that they have created an atomic gas that has negative Kelvin in temperature. Now what does this mean for us and why is this such a big deal.  This is a big deal for scientists but many of them are claiming it is a fluke?

What Is Absolute Zero?

Zero Kelvin as I stated above was thought to be the coldest any object could be. The reason this was so is because if any atom reaches this temperature they are supposed to stop moving they no longer have any energy to move. An easy way to put this is as we all know when you are cold outside you will wear a jacket. You wear this jacket to insulate your body by keeping your body heat in and keeping the cold out. Since the heat transfers to a cold surface never the other way around which is why penguins always huddle together, so that body heat is not being taken by the snow, but it is being shared between them. But back on the molecular scale since heat is a form of energy the atom is losing it in a way to keep its self warm. So the atom has lost all of its energy once it reaches absolute zero which is why it is no longer capable of moving. All of the energy of the atom has left, and it is completely "frozen" meaning it has very little movement so little that it is practically none.

What Does This Mean?

Now what does this mean if the atom can have   a lower temperature than absolute zero well I would think that it means the atom might have another form of energy. Maybe there is a relationship between this and dark energy. There might be the possibility of an atom having negative energy which might allow it to go below absolute zero. However what would the properties of negative energy does that idea even starts to make sense? How can something have no energy but yet have negative energy. Could you harness this power? And where does this power actually come from? So I am going to be very interested in where this discovery will lead us I am hoping that it can help us understand some things in the universe such as dark matter and dark energy. However, these are just ideas that I think could happen, but I am not a physicist so I can test it.