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I recently saw an article that talked about negative Kelvin. How's this possible?
Is Negative Kelvin a Real Concept?
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You said "negative Kelvin". Did you mean "negative temperature" instead? If so, Googling for that will find some good explanations, including http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/neg_temperature.html
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Can you point us to the article?
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