drink -40F rum and die; T.C. Boyle/Drop City: Pan's death

[pulykamell]

Whoops…Where I say “found scale increments to be” I mean “found the difference between boiling and freezing points of water to be.”

[Seraphim]

@robby

Do either of you have any evidence to support these assertions?

It is my understanding that it is no more meaningful to discuss temperatures less than zero Kelvin than it is to speak of volumes, masses, or pressures that are less than zero. All of these concepts are physically meaningless.

Gentlemen, welcome to the weirdness of Negative Temperature. Apparently you can reach negative kelvin temperatures, but not by cooling. Odd, huh? The reason why defies easy explanation, so you’ll have to read the link.

[T.Mehr]

@FriendRob

I’m almost at the end of Drop City and Pan’s still alive.

Sorry, FriendRob. I have to admit that I didn’t even think about it.