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"everything in the universe is in a constant state of vibration". Is this true?

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"everything in the universe is in a constant state of vibration". Is this true?

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  1. instead of vibration let us say in a constant state of motion


  2. Intuitively, I'd say yes.  Otherwise, that which has no vibration would be at a state of Absolute Zero, with no energy.

  3. Hard to say without the proper context.  This sounds like a supposition of string theory more than an established scientific fact.  Now it is true to state that everything that we have measured has some random kinetic energy.  This energy is what we call "heat" and the background radiation of the universe is about 3 Kelvin.  Thus everything can be considered to be in a state of vibration, if you are asking in the context of heat or measured temperature.

    However, physicists have created Bose-Einstein Condensates, and these are atoms as close to Absolute Zero as we can get.  So far, the coldest yet is 500 picoKelvins above Absolute Zero, done by a team at MIT in 2003.

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