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Can you change the state of matter by increasing the speed?
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[QUOTE="Ibix, post: 6142132, member: 365269"] This is only half of the correct statement. In fact, it's the average speed of the particles relative to one another that affects the state of matter. Simply increasing the speed of a block of matter doesn't change that. For example we are doing 20 km/s round the Sun but we don't all boil. This is, as trurle says, an example of the principle of relativity. If what you say were true then we could just carry a thermometer and use it to measure our speed relative to the absolute state of rest that your line of thinking implies. The world does not work that way. [/QUOTE]
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