The Unattainability of Absolute Zero and the Irremovability of Zero-Point Fluctuations: Two Distinct Prohibitions and a Monomedium Hypothesis
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Abstract
Part of the SRDP (Self-Replicating of Dark Particles) programme, this conceptual note (no new calculations) separates two statements that the first version wrongly merged into "two complementary foundations of the unattainability of absolute zero". The third law of thermodynamics forbids reaching T = 0 in a finite number of steps (and, by a general derivation of 2017, in a finite time with finite resources); its justification is thermodynamic, and zero-point oscillations play no part in it. The statement about zero-point energy is a different one: even at T = 0 the ground state of a quantum system or field has non-zero energy and fluctuations (hereafter "zero-point activity"). Our hypothesis concerns only the second statement: we identify the irremovable zero-point activity with the activity of the monomedium — a homogeneous continuous medium whose stable concentrations, we propose, are the particles. The Casimir effect confirms quantum electrodynamics but does not discriminate between this identification and the standard description, and it can be calculated without zero-point energy. What would discriminate is a relation r = r(ρ_vac) between the vacuum energy density and the replication rate r (the rate at which dark particles multiply in SRDP); it has not been derived. The identification inherits the cosmological constant problem (a mismatch of ~55 to ~123 orders of magnitude, depending on the estimate), which we do not resolve. Status: the separation of the two prohibitions — works (standard physics); the identification — not established, with no observable difference from the standard description so far (uninformative).
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BibTeX
@misc{moskvin2026unattainability,
title = {{The Unattainability of Absolute Zero and the Irremovability of Zero-Point Fluctuations: Two Distinct Prohibitions and a Monomedium Hypothesis}},
author = {Sergei Moskvin},
howpublished = {Zenodo},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23644384},
url = {https://zenodo.org/records/23644384},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - The Unattainability of Absolute Zero and the Irremovability of Zero-Point Fluctuations: Two Distinct Prohibitions and a Monomedium Hypothesis
AU - Sergei Moskvin
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/25
PB - Zenodo
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23644384
UR - https://zenodo.org/records/23644384
AB - Part of the SRDP (Self-Replicating of Dark Particles) programme, this conceptual note (no new calculations) separates two statements that the first version wrongly merged into "two complementary foundations of the unattainability of absolute zero". The third law of thermodynamics forbids reaching T = 0 in a finite number of steps (and, by a general derivation of 2017, in a finite time with finite resources); its justification is thermodynamic, and zero-point oscillations play no part in it. The statement about zero-point energy is a different one: even at T = 0 the ground state of a quantum system or field has non-zero energy and fluctuations (hereafter "zero-point activity"). Our hypothesis concerns only the second statement: we identify the irremovable zero-point activity with the activity of the monomedium — a homogeneous continuous medium whose stable concentrations, we propose, are the particles. The Casimir effect confirms quantum electrodynamics but does not discriminate between this identification and the standard description, and it can be calculated without zero-point energy. What would discriminate is a relation r = r(ρ_vac) between the vacuum energy density and the replication rate r (the rate at which dark particles multiply in SRDP); it has not been derived. The identification inherits the cosmological constant problem (a mismatch of ~55 to ~123 orders of magnitude, depending on the estimate), which we do not resolve. Status: the separation of the two prohibitions — works (standard physics); the identification — not established, with no observable difference from the standard description so far (uninformative).
ER -