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		_ofdw on Jan 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Negative temperatures are not colder than absolute... 99% of the time the silly analogies people try to make are more misleading/confusing to the average person than the actual science. This is one of the 99%

Xcelerate on Jan 6, 2013 [–]

Haha, right there with you!

"The Higgs boson is like pearls moving through molasses" or "a celebrity moving through a bar".

"Spacetime is like a big sheet of fabric with a bowling ball on it."

Yeah... no.

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