What is the hottest thing in the universe?
(A point in which something is so hot, It can't get any Hotter?)
Louie John Castillo
Louie John Castillo
To Find out, Let's begin with the Human Body:
- A human body temperature is not constant. 37° Celsius is just an Average.
The body's internal temperature fluctuates by about 0.5° Celsius throughout the day in a cycle. |
The body's internal temperature reaches its coolest natural healthy temperature at 4:30 in the morning, and at 7 PM it reaches its highest! |
But a dangerous fever is not good.
42°C is almost always LETHAL!
42°C is almost always LETHAL!
- The highest recorded temperature across all of earth has happened 4 times in death Valley, where it reaches 54°C.
- 82°C is needed for brewing coffee.
- At 99°C a cake is done.
- 1090°C is the temperature of LAVA fresh out of the ground,
The video snapshot above is piece of Obsidian, a volcanic glass, which can melt into an actual lava right in the backyard. |
- The Sun although at 149,000,000 km, it affects the Earth's overall temperature.
- The temperature on the Sun's Surface clocks in at 5500°C, but the core where fusion occurs, is ridiculous. The temperature reaches 15 Million°C (AKA 15 Million Kelvin)!
- The Kelvin Scale has units that are the same size as the Celsius degree, but it is an absolute Scale. Where 0, is an absolute 0.
If you were to heat only the head of the pin to the temperature of the center of the sun, it would kill any person within 1000 miles out of it! |
The man can be seen "glowing" inside an opaque plastic bag using an infrared camera. |
If you want something to be the right temperature to glow in the visible spectrum, you'll need to reach the DRAPER POINT (about 525°C), at this point, almost any object will begin to glow a dim red.
We can calculate the expected wavelength of radiation coming off of an object because of its temperature, and that wavelength gets smaller and smaller, the hotter and hotter the object gets!
It goes from radio wave, microwave, up to infrared, to visible — all the way to X-rays and Gamma rays which are created in the middle of our sun.
At temperatures as hot as the sun, matter exists in a 4th state, not solid, not liquid, not gas, but instead, a state where electrons wander away from the nuclei — Plasma.
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You can actually create your own plasma by microwaving the flame in a candle. |
Our sun, although insanely hot, isn't even close to being the hottest thing in the universe.
Compared to the Sun's temperature at 15 Million K, the peak temperature reached during a thermonuclear explosion is 350 Million K, which hardly counts because the temperature achieved so briefly.
But inside the core of the star, 8 times larger than our sun, on the last day of its life, as it collapses on itself, you would reach a temperature of 3 Billion K! or 3 GigaKelvin (if you want to be cool).
At 1 TeraKelvin, things get weird, the electrons aren't the only thing that wander away, the Hadrons themeselves, the protons, the neutrons in the nucleus melts into quarks and glouns, a sort of soup. |
1 teraKelvin is really frighteningly hot! but whats more frightening than this?
The Star WR 104, about 8,000 light-years away from us, its mas is equivalent of 25 of our sun. |
When this star dies and collapse, its internal temperature would be so great that the energy emitted — the gamma radiation it flings out into space would stronger than the entire amount of energy our sun will ever create in its entire lifetime. The Gamma Ray Bursts are quite narrow so earth is most likely safe. (well, maybe)
When WR 104 collapses, even though its 4,702 trillion miles away, the energy it releases would still be bad! Exposure for 10 seconds would mean losing a quarter of Earth Ozone layer, resulting in mass extinction, food chain depletion and starvation — from 8,000 light-years away!
The Large Hadron Collider lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as deep as 175 metres (574 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. |
Inside the Large Hadron Collider, the Scientist have been able to smash protons into nuclei, resulting in temperatures much larger than TeraKelvin, they have been able to reach ExaKelvin range, but only last for an incredibly brief moment and only involve a small number of particles.
Let's Get even Hotter!
The object's temperature corresponds to the amount of energy it emits.When matter reaches temperature as high those found in the Center of the Sun, an enormous amount of energy is radiated away. The energy emitted by an object often tells us a lot about the temperature of an object.
But, if the Object reaches a temperature of 141,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 K, the radiation it will emit will have a wavelength of 0.000000000000000000000000001616 nanometer, also known as Plank length. According to the Quantum Mechanics, its the shortest possible distance in our universe,
The Problem is, if we an add more energy to 141,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 K (Plank Temperature), our theories will not work! The object would become hotter then, the temperature would be so hot that what it is would not be considered a temperature.
Theoretically there is no limit to the amount of energy we add into the system — We just don't know what would happen if it got hotter than the plank temperature. Classically, you could argue that much energy in one place would instantly cause a Black Hole to form. A Black Hole formed from an Energy has a Special name — A Kugelblitz.
So, basically what I'm trying to say is when you want to tell someone you like, that you think they are hot, so that hot that not even science can understand, just call them a "Kugelblitz"!
Finally, here is something fun, the Sun is about 4.7 Billion years old, about halfway to its life-cycle, and so far it has burned 100 Earths worth of fuel, which sounds like a lot, but the sun is the size of 300,000 earths, because of that discrepancy, you could have a lot of mathematical fun comparing your energy output to the Sun's. The Sun is way hotter than us and it puts out more energy than us!
Well, think back again, 1 cubic cm. of human puts out more energy than an average cubic centimeter of the Sun! — Which should make you feel quite warm inside.
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