What would happen if you went to absolute zero?

The Law of Conservation of Energy states that it isn’t possible to achieve absolute zero. To answer your question, if the human body were to reach absolute zero somehow, it would stop all motion and become truly lifeless, same as any other object.

Can you breathe in absolute zero?

At absolute zero, matter is in its lowest energy state, but it still has some energy from the vibration of chemical bonds, orbits of electrons, and movements within the atomic nucleus. Most of the kinetic energy is removed, but a person’s heart beats, lungs inhale and exhale, and there is still potential energy.

Can you move in absolute zero?

At zero kelvin (minus 273 degrees Celsius) the particles stop moving and all disorder disappears. Thus, nothing can be colder than absolute zero on the Kelvin scale. Low-energy states are more likely than high-energy states, i.e. only a few particles move really fast.

Can water temperature go below absolute zero?

On the Celsius scale minus temperatures are only surprising in summer. On the absolute temperature scale, which is used by physicists and is also called the Kelvin scale, it is not possible to go below zero – at least not in the sense of getting colder than zero kelvin.

What is water like at absolute zero?

Of course water will freeze at absolute zero. That is about -273 C and -459 F. It will also freeze long before the temps get that low. The standard freezing point for water is 0 C and 32 F (at normal atmospheric pressure).

Is it possible to go to absolute zero?

And that’s important, because even if we can never reach absolute zero, we can get pretty damn close, as NASA demonstrated recently with its Cold Atom Laboratory, which can hit a mere billionth of a degree above absolute zero, or 100 million times colder than the depths of space.

What would happen to the human body at absolute zero temperature?

Absolutely nothing. At absolute zero temperature, all motion of atoms would come to an almost complete stop, only the motion required by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle will be left. Well to reach that point first all of the cells in the human body would probably burst as it approaches 0 degrees Kelvin.

Is it possible to thaw the human body at absolute zero?

No. At temperatures well above absolute zero, the body would freeze and all life processes would stop. Freezing would burst cell walls, doing much damage that could not be repaired, so that thawing the body would not restore its functioning.

How long can humans survive in space without water?

On top of that, they can take around 1,000 times as much ionizing radiation as most other animals and can live for as much as 10 years without water in a dehydrated state, snapping out of it once water is re-introduced to their environment. They can also survive down to the near vacuum in space all the way up to 6,000 atmospheres of pressure.