There’s a Secret Way to Get to Absolute Zero. Scientists Just Found It.

We’re not getting to absolute zero anytime soon. The temperature at which all energy in an object drops to zero, our inability to reach it is enshrined in the third law of thermodynamics.
One version of the law states that in order to reach absolute zero, we’d have to either have infinite time or infinite energy. That’s not happening any time soon, so out the window go our hopes of achieving a total lack of energy.
Or do they?
A team from the Vienna University of Technology in Austria wanted to see if there was alternate route to absolute zero. And they found one in an interesting place—quantum computing.
The researchers entered into their research with the intent of trying to generate a version of the third law of thermodynamics that jived cleanly with quantum physics. Because the regular version that so many physicists know and love doesn’t quite fit nicely into the quantum world.
There’s a Secret Way to Get to Absolute Zero. Scientists Just Found It.