stackyFACTSYou can get extremely, infuriatingly close to completely stopping atomic motion, but hitting true fundamental zero kelvin is entirely mathematically forbidden. Physically removing that extremely microscopic last fraction of thermal energy would practically require an infinite amount of work from a massive outside system.
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