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This is just the rough answer, as I am looking for more details myself... but Kelvin was trying to discover at what temperature the ideal gases turned to liquid (He, H, etc), and he then used those numbers to plot a line that supposedly gave him the temperature that would mean there was no 'energy' left in a substance, and thus be as cold as it cold possibly be. There are flaws to his theory, but it is called Kelvin because of him. Keep in mind that it is likely that there are temperatures colder than 'absolute zero'... currently they are called 'negative temperatures'. Some people postulate that below a certain temperature that the matter would actually contain *more* energy than at a relative 'absolute zero', and if both of those turn out to be 'facts' then pretty much the whole idea of 'absolute zero' is blown out of the water 'so to speak'. Nova has a great special called Absolute Zero that you can rent from Netflix that tells about the history of 'cold'. I recommend it to anyone interested in this topic.

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0K. This is because the definition of "absolute zero" is the lowest possible temperature of anything. The Kelvin temperature was designed to simply be an offset of Celsius (so a change of 1°C is equal to a change of 1K) with 0K being absolute zero.

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Absolute zero is zero on the Kelvin scale, so ... zero.

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