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What does Zero-k mean?

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FireX 13 years ago Just random name or is there a meaning to it? +0 / -0
Pxtl 13 years ago Well, the original plotline to CA involved two factions that would never, ever, ever, ever cease hostilities until the heat death of the universe. Somebody noticed that an RTS about the heat death of the universe sounded neat, so the name zero-K appeared. 0 Kelvin being absolute zero temperature - i.e. the temperature the universe will be when absolutely everything is dead and burnt out to a cold cinder. +0 / -0
FireX 13 years ago Very interesting :D +0 / -0
Saktoth 13 years ago Open Conflict Robocracy Quantum Wars Eclipse Ecce Machina We argued for months about these and dozens of other names, until it was decided by vote that Zero-K was the least worse. It is indeed an allusion to the heat death of the universe, the state of absolute entropy, etc. +0 / -0
[V]SeoAiri]0K[ 13 years ago love the name! far better than those Saktoth wrote about... +0 / -0
Antelope 13 years ago Heat death doesn't mean that there will be no more heat. It means that everything will be the same temperature. All work requires a temperature gradient, and if everything is the same temperature no work can be performed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Death +0 / -0
Saktoth 13 years ago Yeah, technically 0 Kelvin is a theoretical value that can only be approached but never reached. In a universe whose rate of expansion is accelerating though, the heat death will approach 0 K. Though technically even 0 K posses zero point energy, which, of course, cannot be harnessed to do work. Unless the Casimir effect proves to be something substantial beyond the Van der Waals force. +0 / -0
GoogleFrog 13 years ago Most names sound weird until they have been used for long enough for them to see natural. +0 / -0