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Physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have smashed gold ions together to produce a quark-gluon plasma like that which existed in the first instant after the Big Bang that created the universe, and in doing so have produced what Guinness World Records says is the highest man-made temperature ever, 7.2 trillion degrees. That is about 250,000 times hotter than the temperature at the core of the sun.
The record certainly won't last long, however. Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe have produced a plasma with an energy density three times higher than that produced at RHIC, which should translate into a 30% higher temperature. They have not, however, announced what the measured temperature actually is.
Originally posted by wtbengineer
I think they must rather calculate it based on excitement of particles or something.
Originally posted by Swamper
Lol, 7.2 trillion degrees. Does that mean that it's possible to create temperatures of - trillions of degrees?
Originally posted by Swamper
Lol, 7.2 trillion degrees. Does that mean that it's possible to create temperatures of - trillions of degrees?
If humankind had stopped doing research, we'd still be living in caves and hunting wild beasts for our food.