Does time pass for an object kept at absolute zero temperature?

Question

I think that means zero molecular or quantum activity, is that right?

Someone's getting handy with the ratings.

I'm talking hypothetically, and does it have to be measured? Just check after a century! Would find out then. In theory.

Answer 1

Huh, that's actually a really interesting question. If there is ABSOLUTELY no molecular movement, there is really no way to measure time, is there? Because all molecules are constantly moving, so technically time can be measured by tracking their locations. Without movement, there is really no time as a chronological concept.

However, we live in a dynamic universe, and all things are connected. So as long as time exists for SOMETHING, it exists for EVERYTHING: there is actually no isolation.

Edit: by the way, if your question was actually about absolute zero, it's defined as, of course, zero molecular activity. Zero Kelvin; the absolute lowest temperature possible. (And it's not even possible yet; we haven't achieved it in a lab situation. We've gotten very close, but not quite THERE.)

Answer 2

I think time passes just as normal. Absolute zero temperature is when atoms stop moving relative to each other. So nothing changes, if you were at absolute zero you would be unchanged after a million years. But it isn't because time has stopped. It is because you have stopped. Time does not change pace as things heat up or cool down.

Answer 3

There is no known direct connection between temperature and time, like the Lorentz transformation in the special theory of relativity connects space and time coordinates. So far the lowest temperatures man has reached in laboratory are 10^-8 Kelvin and no effects concerning a possible slow down of time had been observed.

Answer 4

Temperature has no impact on the passage of time.

And absolute zero does not imply no quantum activity. Temperature is not associated with some forms of quantum activity.

Answer 5

You're trying to freeze time? Even at absolute zero, the particle(s) would exhibit quantum energy fluctuations due to the uncertainty principle (deltaExdelta t=h/2pi) Even confinement in some kind of magnetic bottle trap wouldn't work!

Answer 6

The question is not meaningful, as nothing can be 'kept' at absolute zero.

Hypothetically, if an object were at absolute zero, then there would be zero motion in space. As space does not exist in isolation, but only as space-time, the only way that there could be zero motion in space is if zero time passes.

Answer 7

I think you are trying to relate entropy with time. Your theory is that time is the product of entropy.
Absolute zero temperature is non-entropy yes, but does this mean to you that a non entropy state would induce a frozen time state?
Does time need entropy for it to exist? Or is it a human concept of disorder and time in order to place a measurment for time and to give evidence for its existence?

Answer 8

Time would stop but it is not possible to reach absolute zero