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[ein]

What would happen if ohms were zed?

[dragnar]

Pretty much every single thing has at least some resistance.  The only way it wouldn't is if its ohm value was 0.  Which isn't practical in a real life setting.  Even wire has some resistance.

Superconductors are essentially resistance 0. Though yeah, under normal circumstances practically everything has SOME resistance.

What would happen if ohms were zed?

WEIRD stuff. EX: magnets levitate above superconductors if you spin them.

[ToonyMan]

I think the only way something could have zero ohms is if that object was frozen down to absolute zero.

[dragnar]

That is false my good sir! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity

[ToonyMan]

I'll say that when I actually get to use one of those.

[ein]

Okay, cool, so I won't kill myself trying to use one of those because it creates a heat vacuum.

[ECrownofFire]

Absolute zero is actually physically impossible anyway. Until universal entropy that is. But in order for an object to be at absolute zero, it would have to have NO forces acting on it.

[Realmfighter]

Wouldn't that be possible, with enough ball numbing dedication?

[ein]

No, that's what he's saying.
You'd need some way to remove all the heat form something and a perfect insulator to keep more heat from moving in, and creating a sort of heat vacuum that would freeze you to death if you were too close.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Not for us, at least not right now. We can get close, though. Right now, the only areas that are at absolute zero are the darkest areas of our universe that have never been touched by the light of a star.

[ToonyMan]

I wasn't saying that.  -_-  But I don't care we'll go with it.

[ein]

I think that's Engrish, but I'm not sure. Can't quite tell through the shrieking and howling.

[alway]

3.71 GPA after my first quarter at university!

[MC Dirty]

Right now, the only areas that are at absolute zero are the darkest areas of our universe that have never been touched by the light of a star.

That is not true.

[alway]

Yep, the coldest known place in the universe was in a lab here on Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero#Very_low_temperatures

The current world record was set in 1999 at 100 picokelvins by cooling a piece of rhodium metal.

... This has cooled it down to approximately 1 K, as deduced by astronomical observation. This is the lowest natural temperature ever recorded.

10^-10 < 1