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That's only true up to a point. I suspect that if you exposed just about anything to 100,000 kelvin it ceased to look like any kind of matter we know anything
by msandford 10y ago
That's only true up to a point. I suspect that if you exposed just about anything to 100,000 kelvin it ceased to look like any kind of matter we know anything about.
- adwn 10y ago> I suspect that if you exposed just about anything to 100,000 kelvin it ceased to look like any kind of matter we know anything about. 1e5 K? You're missing a couple orders of magnitude, there. The hottest parts of the Sun's surface go up to 20 million Kelvin, and that doesn't "cease to look like any kind of matter we know anything about".
- msandford 10y agoYes, but there is SOME temperature at which heating things up does start to cause things to act weirdly. You know, like in a fusion reactor. That definitely changes the radioactivity of certain elements.
- mikeash 10y agoThis experiment was performed thousands of times back in the 1950s and 1960s. A nuclear weapon's fireball is way hotter than 100,000K, and the exploding weapon contains lots of fissionable material and fission byproducts. The extreme temperatures don't destroy them, they just help spread it around.
- msandford 10y agoYup, you got me there. Speculating wildly ends poorly.