I've had optical damping explained to me in a classical sense - rather than wave interactions causing maximum destruction, think of an excited atom being like a child on a swing, and rather than pushing them every time they start to move away from your to get their swing higher and higher, to push them every time they approach you to get them to swing lower and lower.
As you say, though, whichever analogy you use, it's not possible to remove all the energy in the system due to Heisenbergs Uncertainty principle and the effect of zero-point energy: absolute zero is a theoretical minimum temperature, not one that can be practically achieved for any length of time or for any object with mass.
"I am sure some one of the old guys will declare me Troll rather than accept the obvious reality."
Well, I'm not that old a guy, but statements like "obvious reality" do need to be backed up with some hard proof and proper theory, and last I heard, most folks were happy with the sun being powered by nuclear fusion rather than "electrically".
By all means, let's see your theories and proof, and then we can all decide for ourselves.
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I've had optical damping explained to me in a classical sense - rather than wave interactions causing maximum destruction, think of an excited atom being like a child on a swing, and rather than pushing them every time they start to move away from your to get their swing higher and higher, to push them every time they approach you to get them to swing lower and lower.
As you say, though, whichever analogy you use, it's not possible to remove all the energy in the system due to Heisenbergs Uncertainty principle and the effect of zero-point energy: absolute zero is a theoretical minimum temperature, not one that can be practically achieved for any length of time or for any object with mass.
"I am sure some one of the old guys will declare me Troll rather than accept the obvious reality." Well, I'm not that old a guy, but statements like "obvious reality" do need to be backed up with some hard proof and proper theory, and last I heard, most folks were happy with the sun being powered by nuclear fusion rather than "electrically". By all means, let's see your theories and proof, and then we can all decide for ourselves.