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A temperature below absolute zero


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Brian Krueger, PhD
Columbia University Medical Center
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Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 1:07 pm CST

This is probably one of the most misleading titles ever but I can't think of a new one for it that isn't half a paragraph long.  I'm open to suggestions.  I think classically we think of temperature as hot and cold.  But here negative isn't describing hot or cold, it's describing the distribution of energy states of the gas.  Negative kelvin = super hot?  I feel like I need a physics lesson to properly understand how temperature is defined.

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