Your beer can only cool so fast. Blame quantum mechanics
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How fast can a kettle boil water for your cup of tea, or a refrigerator cool down a bottle of beer? The answer depends on the details of the machines, but according to new work published in Nature Physics, the minimum wait time does not. Instead, it’s quantum mechanics that imposes a limit on how fast something can thermalize to a particular temperature.
Objects thermalize, or reach a state of thermal equilibrium, when they no longer exchange any net heat with their environment. Physicists alrea
Objects thermalize, or reach a state of thermal equilibrium, when they no longer exchange any net heat with their environment. Physicists alrea
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