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Coldest Place in the Universe
Chris Gondek writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on how NASA has released a high-quality image of the coldest place found in the universe. Five thousand light years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus, the nebula, a gas cloud formed from a dying star, has a temperature of minus 272 degrees.
It is only one degree warmer than absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature, when atoms cease to vibrate and radiate no heat whatsoever.
This radiation is the remnant of the Big Bang, the explosion which forged the universe in trillion-degree temperatures. More than 11 billion years later, this heat has cooled to minus 270 degrees, but is still detectable."
Almost as cold as Hillary Rosen's heart 8^)
You mean it's *not* my ex-girlfriend's soul?
My bosses office at pay review time...
"I kill you! You no good 56'ing!"
Most frigid place in the universe? They've already shown Janeway's quarters.
Ba-dum-ch-OW! That hurt!
... and all of a sudden, 1000 Overclockers wonder, "How do I get my Athlon to Centaurus?"
I can just imagine all of the overclocking freaks trying to figure out a way to use the nebula to keep their processors at a reasonable temperature.... Imagine computing life without heat-sinks or fans!
of course, all those flaming processors would end up creating enough heat to send the whole nebula boiling away, and we'd be back searching for the ultimate cooling solution once again....
"Operating systems suck: you're better off using only the BIOS" --trainsaw.com
In 1995, American researchers cooled rubidium atoms to less than 170 billionths of a degree above absolute zero.
I know a girl like that....
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