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Space/Science » in reply to So, if you create a total vacuum, what's the temperature inside it?

That's like asking what the pressure is.

In the real world, there's no such thing as a "total" vacuum. The high-vacuum science work I've dealt with practically counted individual molecules. Gravity Probe B was put into orbit, but the "vacuum" up there wasn't nearly good enough. Devices called ion pumps and a couple of other tricks were required to bring the vacuum to the quality required for the gyros to work.

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