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Boffins trap ultra-cold plasma-in-a-bottle, a move that may unlock secrets of exotic stars

adam 40 Silver badge

Re: Presumably

"The bottle would still be moving on a planet that is moving, in solar system that is moving and so technically it would not be 'absolute' universe zero, just some local zero."

is that why it's colder at the South and North Poles, where the motion is less (than at the equator).

No, of course not, but if what you're saying is true it should be possible to measure the effect on the Kelvin scale at the equator, and at the poles, and probably at 6 months difference too (earth going round sun adds or subtracts from orbit around the galaxy centre)

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