4 Trillion Degrees Celcius...

[Flatty]

Scientists have created the hottest temperature ever in the lab -- 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- hot enough to break matter down into the kind of soup that existed microseconds after the birth of the universe. They used a giant atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to knock gold ions together to make the ultra-hot explosions -- which lasted only for milliseconds.
But that is enough to give physicists fodder for years of study that they hope will help them understand why and how the universe formed.
"That temperature is hot enough to melt protons and neutrons," Brookhaven's Steven Vigdor told a news conference at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington on Monday.
These particles make up atoms, but they are themselves made up of smaller components called quarks and gluons.
What the physicists are looking for are tiny irregularities that can explain why matter clumped out of the primeval hot soup.


More here: (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100215/sc_nm/us_physics_temperature)

[Nitty]

How do they measure these temperatures? Surely their thermometer can't handle the heat?

[Flatty]

How do they measure these temperatures? Surely their thermometer can't handle the heat?

I was wondering the exact same thing. I know they use thermocouples in manufacturing to measure temperatures, with different types for different temperature ranges. The mind boggles as to how exactly they measured this temperature.

[Askari]

I think they measure light waves or UV waves or something like that and extrapolate from known values.

[Flatty]

Shot, Skari.

It's scary (get it, get it :psycho:) to think what these scientists are doing on this planet. Their testing facility was only 12 feet underground & who's to say that creating a temperature that high wouldn't just set the whole earth on fire. I suppose they have to do these things to make advances, and it is carefully controlled, but I get the funny feeling that one day someone is really going to push the boundaries and just obliterate the planet.

[Askari]

Like the big ring thingy in Europe.... that Hadron Collider contraption scares the be-jesus out of me.

[Nitty]

I'm sure some idiot will blow up the planet. At least we won't know about it :gno:

[SintaxErr]

Scientists have created the hottest temperature ever in the lab -- 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- hot enough to break matter down into the kind of soup that existed microseconds after the birth of the universe. [/URL]
They must think we are real dumb. How would they know what kind of soup existed just before or after the "Big Bang"? I do however have my money on tomato. That's why the sun is red in movies.

[Flatty]

The sun is orange. :p I'd go with Oranges if I were you.

[SintaxErr]

Orange you say? :hmmm:
Does the scientists know this? This information could change a lot. Like maybe they would need a bigger cannon to shoot into the Haldron collider to make it work..
And another thing. They going to burn thier soup if they make the fire too hot. I recon they should rather cook it at 180deg for 20 minutes. :D

[GeroW4lll]

Remember this?
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/09/largehadron.jpg
According to Halflife, the hadron collider is what starts the apocalypse. The guy with the beard is Gordan Freeman. And you all know what that means!

[Nitty]

Remember this?
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/09/largehadron.jpg
According to Halflife, the hadron collider is what starts the apocalypse. The guy with the beard is Gordan Freeman. And you all know what that means!

He's the brother of Morgan Freeman?

[GeroW4lll]

No he ends the world