Hottest Temps in the Universe

A research team used Brookhaven Lab's giant atom smasher, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC, to ram charged gold particles into each other billions of times, creating a "quark-gluon plasma" with a temperature hotter than anything known in the universe, even supernova explosions. The experiment is recreating the conditions of the universe a few microseconds after the Big Bang.

Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

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[69BearPedo]

4 trilion...lol chuck norris can't even get a tan...

[alphavortex1]

k, I'd like to know how the heck could they know the temp that high?... talk about speculation

[predatorsc1992]

@alphavortex1 they use light and maths to aid their presumptions

[fuji2failo]

i agree with alphavortex1 how the heck do they read that temperature ???? 4 trillon ,, LOl that comment is a joke

[imtihanahmed]

@alphavortex1 i agree. if they used light to judge the temperature, they have quite a few degrees error in there. To my knowledge gamma rays are the highest energy wave, and i wonder if that would still be the same at 4 trillion degrees.

[sivadfa]

@rich16041987 The reaction was the size of a single Gold particle, and the heat was only that hot for billionths of a nanosecond. Because of that, most objects you could come across can contain the reaction safely. But I wouldn't touch it with my own hands because of the gamma radiation.

[rich16041987]

how the hell do u contain a reaction that hot??