Comment Re:Confirms quantum theory (Score 2, Informative) 202
I've had optical damping explained to me in a classical sense - rather than wave interactions causing maximum destruction, think of an excited atom being like a child on a swing, and rather than pushing them every time they start to move away from your to get their swing higher and higher, to push them every time they approach you to get them to swing lower and lower.
As you say, though, whichever analogy you use, it's not possible to remove all the energy in the system due to Heisenbergs Uncertainty principle and the effect of zero-point energy: absolute zero is a theoretical minimum temperature, not one that can be practically achieved for any length of time or for any object with mass.
As you say, though, whichever analogy you use, it's not possible to remove all the energy in the system due to Heisenbergs Uncertainty principle and the effect of zero-point energy: absolute zero is a theoretical minimum temperature, not one that can be practically achieved for any length of time or for any object with mass.
