| Title | You’re So Hot, You Cool Me Down |
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| Contributor | David H. Silver(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0526.28 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0526/chapters/10.11647/obp.0526.28 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | David H. Silver |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2026-04-08 |
| Long abstract | Temperature measures how entropy changes with energy (∂S/∂E), not merely kinetic activity. While unbounded systems like ideal gases can only reach positive temperatures, quantum systems with finite energy spectra reveal different dynamics. When energy addition increases disorder, temperature is positive; when maximum entropy is reached, temperature becomes infinite; further energy addition creates more ordered states with negative temperatures. These negative temperature states are not colder than absolute zero but as hot as infinity — they transfer energy to any positive-temperature system when brought into contact. |
| Print length | 10 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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David H. Silver is an industrial researcher whose career bridges computer vision, computational biology, and science communication. He studied mathematics, computer science, and biology at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology as a Rothschild Scholar, and was awarded a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship for his doctoral work in computational biology at Cambridge, UK. Silver’s peer-reviewed publications span multiple domains: computational biology in Nature and PNAS; computer vision systems in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; medical AI in Human Reproduction and MIDL; and entertainment analysis in PLoS One. He holds over a dozen patents in depth sensing, medical imaging, and generative AI. His industry positions include Algorithm Engineer at Intel Corporation, ML Researcher at Apple, and CTO/co-founder roles at several technology startups. Silver maintains academic collaborations with researchers worldwide and serves as a peer reviewer for Image and Vision Computing and PNAS.