Okay. This question pretains to temperature of atoms and subatomic particles.
As I understand it, thermal energy comes from the random motion of atoms in an object. I'm perfectly willing to accept this. However, what if we have a single atom?
Furthermore, I saw a title for a paper at www.arXiv.org that had "the Electron Temperature Gradient of the Milky Way" in it. That got me wondering, can subatomic particles, such as electrons, have temperatures? If so how? If not, why?
2007-03-23
19:16:00
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