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The Topic: Cold shit

The Asker
Anyone here know anything about absolute zero? (the temperature, not the game)
And for crying out loud, don't you DARE tell me to use a
yiffing search engine!

Responses:
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
Well my friend, absolute zero is the point where all molecular motion in an object is as slow as it can be. Mind you however, molecular motion never stops completely.
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
This point at which molecular motion slows to its minimum is called absolute zero. It is measured not in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius, but instead in degrees Kelvin.
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
Zero degrees Kelvin (-459 degrees Fahrenheit or -273 degrees Celsius) is the exact point of absolute zero. For reference, water freezes solid (under normal atmospheric pressure) at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, 0 degrees Celsius and 273 degrees Kelvin.
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
The Kelvin scale uses the same graduations as the Celsius scale for ease of use and standardization. Thus, an increment of 1 degree Celsius equals 1 degree Kelvin.
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
Now to illustrate, my assistant Beaker here has offered to have himself dropped into a container of liquid Helium in order to show what happens to an object at it approaches absolute zero.
Beaker
Meep! Meep meep meep?!
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
Hmm, perhaps we'd better not go forward...I recollect that experiments like this always end rather badly.

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