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Absolute zero...is there an absolute maximum temperature?
Most of us here know that absolute zero is −459.67°. But is there and absolute maximum temperature.
My line of thought: At a given extreme temperature that the level of energy would be so high that it would reduce the atom to its fundamental particles. (Muons, gluons, gamma, beta, etc.)
So.....is there an absolute maximum temperature?
5 Answers
- Anonymous6 years agoFavorite Answer
No but at some level the energy would be so great that relativity or quantum mechanics might play a role.
cosmologists have calculated what the temperature must have beefing the
Universe was very small just a sort time after it came into existence.
the universe has a current "average temperature' of about 4 Deg absolute as measured by microwave background radiation. the intense energy "cooled " as the universe expanded.
at temperature an energy rises it becomes impossible for atoms to remain stable and the universe was a "soup of radiation"
when calculation are carried to extreme strange things happen.
We THINK we understand but there is a lot to learn.
- L. E. GantLv 76 years ago
There is some question of whether there is a minimum... Much of that question starts with whether something at absolute zero would have no energy...
The thing is, temperature is something that we use in a relative way. absolute zero is just a starting point, rather like using the Big Bang as the starting point for time -- we have no way of measuring what's on "the other side"
- 6 years ago
I don't know the answer, but that is a really good question. I agree that there must be an absolute maximum temperature. Maybe it is inside a black hole?
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