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is there a real upper limit on temperature? Technical limitations aside, not really. However, there's the Planck temperature of 1.42×10^32 K where our physical
by cygx 14y ago
is there a real upper limit on temperature?
Technical limitations aside, not really. However, there's the Planck temperature of 1.42×10^32 K where our physical models break down.
- glhaynes 14y agoIs there any simple way of explaining why our model would break down at that point? The first (utterly naive) guess that springs to my mind would be that at that point the vibration would be sufficiently fast that when sampled at a Planck time interval, there'd be no motion at all. Like overflow of an unsigned int. This is almost surely wrong. :)
- twiceaday 14y agoInteresting read: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/absolute-hot.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/absolute-hot.html