On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
Very suspicious! :) Especially since the value is several hundred degrees below absolute zero!That's the negative energy you need to generate warp fields.Contrary to your expectations negative absolute temperature does exist. But it isn't "damn cold", it is "damn hot" instead so that you don't reach it by cooling (cf. the third law of thermodynamics, you have to pass infinite temperatures instead). You can start further reading at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature
Interesting!But I'm pretty sure that the CPU temperature on the original poster's machine isn't quite that hot! :)
Still, thanks for the pointer - it is definitely interesting! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Paul Goyette | PGP DSS Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | Customer Service | FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul at whooppee.com | | Network Engineer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgoyette at juniper.net | | Kernel Developer | | pgoyette at netbsd.org | -------------------------------------------------------------------------