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Considering that temperature is related to how agitated are the particles of a material and that there is a limit of how fast something can move (speed of light

Considering that temperature is related to how agitated are the particles of a material and that there is a limit of how fast something can move (speed of light); doesn't it imposes an upper limit on the temperature? I mean, replacing v_rms by c in equation 3 in https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps/Supplemental_Modules_(Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry)/Physical_Properties_of_Matter/States_of_Matter/Properties_of_Gases/Kinetic_Theory_of_Gases/Connecting_Gas_Properties_to_Kinetic_Theory_of_Gases https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoret... gives us an upper limit for the temperature of a gas, right?

Etheryte 5y ago
That is a somewhat simplified definition of temperature. While there's a parallel discussion on the same topic at [0], the term you're looking for is Planck temperature [1]. There is no "upper cap" on temperature per se, but we also don't have any models for describing what would happen beyond that point. See [2] for more discussion. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29963147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29963147 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units#Planck_temperature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units#Planck_temperatur... [2] https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/420670/43412 https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/420670/43412