Possibly untrue science news

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The temperature isn’t really the average speed, it’s more to do with the average kinetic energy. For molecules that would mean you also have things like their rotational energy but atoms are too symmetrical to have any…still the relationship isn’t linear, so I guess that’s enough to mention both?

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I love this:

To be fair, this superheated state lasted for a mere several trillionths of a second. Also, it blew up.

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I learned long ago that when scientists talk about time and temperature, they are referring to things I have never experienced.

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[starts up laser]

Step over there for a minute…

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Oh, good. So I wasn’t imagining it. That’s a profound relief; I thought it was related to aging.

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I can think of a few people I’d like to see at the bottom of the ocean

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