Is absolute hot possible?

But what about absolute hot? It's the highest possible temperature that matter can attain, according to conventional physics, and well, it's been measured to be exactly 1,420,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 degrees Celsius (2,556,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Can absolute hot be achieved?

Theoretically, the Planck Temperature (100 million million million million million degrees C) is the highest temperature that can be achieved, but the Hagedorn Temperature is even higher, at 2 x 1012 degrees. That's a lot of zeros. And it could go further, depending on how nature is built at the fundamental level.
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Is there anything hotter than absolute hot?

No problem! In theory, a hotter temperature than a hottest temperature can exist—it's a negative temperature. As Charles Kittel and Herbert Kroemer write in their classic text Thermal Physics, "The temperature scale from cold to hot runs +0 K, …, +300 K, …, +∞ K, -∞ K, …, -300 K, …, -0 K."
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What is beyond absolute hot?

At higher temperatures, the pyramid grows taller and skinnier. This trend continues as the temperature rises, up to what's known as the "absolute high" temperature—where the pyramid transforms into a single column, stretching from the ground infinitely up toward the sky. This is where things begin to get weird.
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Is absolute zero hot?

The laws of physics say there is an absolute rock bottom coldest temperature possible. We even define a temperature scale, Kelvins, where this lower limit is defined as 0 Kelvin, otherwise known as absolute zero.
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How Hot Can It Get?



Are black holes hot?

Black holes are freezing cold on the inside, but incredibly hot just outside. The internal temperature of a black hole with the mass of our Sun is around one-millionth of a degree above absolute zero.
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How hot is a supernova?

A supernova can light the sky up for weeks. The temperature in a supernova can reach 1,000,000,000 degrees Celsius. This high temperature can lead to the production of new elements which may appear in the new nebula that results after the supernova explosion.
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Can you reach absolute zero?

Physicists acknowledge they can never reach the coldest conceivable temperature, known as absolute zero and long ago calculated to be minus 459.67°F.
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Is 0 Kelvin possible?

At zero kelvin (minus 273 degrees Celsius) the particles stop moving and all disorder disappears. Thus, nothing can be colder than absolute zero on the Kelvin scale.
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Can fire burn in absolute zero?

You don't find cold fire on earth very much, because the earth isn't that cold. But as we've already seen, you can start a fire at any temperature above absolute zero and if the flame is only say, 50 degrees hotter than the temperature at which you started the fire – it will burn cold.
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Does time stop at absolute zero?

But even if you take the conventional view of the flow of time, motion does not stop at absolute zero. This is because quantum systems exhibit zero point energy, so their energy remains non-zero even when the temperature is absolute zero.
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How hot can humans survive?

How does – or doesn't – your body cope in extreme situations? The maximum body temperature a human can survive is 108.14°F. At higher temperatures the body turns into scrambled eggs: proteins are denatured and the brain gets damaged irreparably. Cold water draws out body heat.
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What is the hottest man made temperature?

Humans Create a Temperature 250,000 Times Hotter Than the Sun, Right Here on Earth. The Brookhaven National Laboratory's particle accelerator has set the world record for a man-made temperature, at around 7.2 trillion degrees Farenheit.
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What is the hottest thing in the universe?

The hottest thing in the Universe: Supernova

The temperatures at the core during the explosion soar up to 100 billion degrees Celsius, 6000 times the temperature of the Sun's core.
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What would absolute zero feel like?

So, beside sounding like an awesome band name, absolute zero is the lowest possible temperature in the Universe. At -273.15°C (-459.67°F), it literally can't get any colder. It's so cold at absolute zero that the very atoms have stopped moving. That's really cold.
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How cold is interstellar space?

The average temperature of outer space near Earth is 283.32 kelvins (10.17 degrees Celsius or 50.3 degrees Fahrenheit). In empty, interstellar space, the temperature is just 3 kelvins, not much above absolute zero, which is the coldest anything can ever get.
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How hot is a Kalvin?

As such, in the Kelvin scale, water freezes at 273.15 K (0 C) and boils at 373.15 K, or 100 C. A single kelvin is referred to as a unit, rather than a degree, and is equal to a single degree on the Celsius scale. The Kelvin scale is mainly used by scientists.
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How cold is space?

The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite has refined temperature measurements taken way back in 1964. According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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How cold is the moon?

The average temperature on the Moon (at the equator and mid latitudes) varies from -298 degrees Fahrenheit (-183 degrees Celsius), at night, to 224 degrees Fahrenheit (106 degrees Celsius) during the day.
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How cold is the Boomerang Nebula?

The Boomerang Nebula is about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the Southern constellation Centaurus. Measurements show the nebula has a temperature of only one degree Kelvin above absolute zero (nearly -460 degrees Fahrenheit).
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What is the temperature inside a black hole?

The black hole evaporates. The most massive black holes in the Universe, the supermassive black holes with millions of times the mass of the Sun will have a temperature of 1.4 x 10-14 Kelvin. That's low. Almost absolute zero, but not quite.
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Will a supernova happen in 2022?

While scientists are confident a supernova will occur in 2022, whether it occurs in our galaxy is a different matter. In any given year, it is an unlikely prospect. On the other hand, one day it may just happen in our galactic neighbourhood. If it does, astronomers say they will be ready.
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What is hotter than lightning?

A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun. One thing hotter is when gold atoms are smashed together by the Large Hadron Collider, but only for a split second. Another thing hotter is a supernova.
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How hot is a nebula?

The temperature of the gas in the nebula is about 10,000 degrees Celsius, and the central stars of planetary nebulae are among the hottest stars in the Universe, with temperature in the range of 25,000 to over 200,000 degrees Celsius.
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