{"id":8985,"date":"2013-01-06T21:32:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T03:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8985"},"modified":"2013-01-06T21:36:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T03:36:39","slug":"what-the-dalai-lama-can-teach-us-about-temperatures-below-absolute-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8985","title":{"rendered":"What the Dalai Lama can teach us about temperatures below absolute zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s the new definition that they came up with.\u00a0<strong>Temperature measures the willingness of an object to give up energy.<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, I lied. This isn\u2019t how they <em>really<\/em> define temperature, because physicists speak math, not english. They define it as\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"latex\" title=\"\\frac{1}{T} = \\frac{dS}{dE}\" alt=\"\\frac{1}{T} = \\frac{dS}{dE}\" src=\"http:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7BT%7D+%3D+%5Cfrac%7BdS%7D%7BdE%7D&amp;bg=ffffff&amp;fg=333333&amp;s=0\" \/>\u00a0which says, in words, that the temperature is inversely proportional to the slope of the entropy vs. energy curve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empiricalzeal.com\/2013\/01\/05\/what-the-dalai-lama-can-teach-us-about-temperatures-below-absolute-zero\/\">What the Dalai Lama can teach us about temperatures below absolute zero | Empirical Zeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the new definition that they came up with.\u00a0Temperature measures the willingness of an object to give up energy.\u00a0Actually, I lied. This isn\u2019t how they really define temperature, because physicists speak math, not english. They define it as\u00a0\u00a0which says, in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8985\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[180,862],"class_list":["post-8985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-math","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8999,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions\/8999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}