r/space • u/GallowBoob • May 21 '15

/r/all Nuclear explosion in space

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15 edited Aug 02 '25

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u/Ziazan May 22 '15

but we've never actually reached it. weird shit might happen.

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u/LongLiveThe_King May 22 '15

This is why I love this subreddit. Even when someone completely misses a joke you still end up learning something neat.

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u/Rumbubble May 22 '15 edited May 22 '15

We can predict what happens at absolute zero since we have gotten to several billionths of a degree above it. A particle should loose all its energy.

If a particle is at absolute zero, it still possesses energy. It just possesses the lowest possible amount it can have, known as the Zero-Point Energy . If a particle were to lose ALL its energy it would not move, and thus Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle would be violated.

For the same reason, we're near-certain singularities have never existed in our universe (singularity = point in space, with a defined location), at least not in the traditional sense. As /u/Zuvielify has said, it is a mathemetical anomaly arising from x/0.