On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
If you generalize "temperature" as in statistical thermodynamics, then you should be able to do better.
It's pretty straightforward to get negative temperatures that way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_absolute_temperature#Lasers
"temperature" is essentially the change in energy content w.r.t. change information content.
Modern computer memory systems are quite good at storing huge amounts of information with very little energy, so they should have a very low "temperature".
In this case the "shielding" is the height of the barriers.
Basically, computers couldn't possibly work unless the "effective temperature" (in statistical thermodynamics terms) of the information stored in their circuits is exceedingly low. Otherwise, they'd constantly be making mistakes & be useless as a digital computer.
At 11:38 AM 12/10/2013, Eugene Salamin wrote:
This is the coldest place on Earth under natural conditions. The coldest place on Earth was in a physics experiment at a temperature of 50 nK. This was touted as the coldest place in the universe.
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