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“I was wondering that as absolute zero temperature is I believe -273 degrees centigrade, is there an absolute maximum temperature? I know that there are massive temperatures in volcanic eruptions, atomic bombs, super novas etc but has anyone ever come up with an absolute maximum that could exist?” – Question posed by my dad.
While I was researching some interesting temperatures to tell you about as we move up the thermometer, I came across this great video from the brilliant Vsauce team that does it all for you. One thing I do want to add is that if you’re ever cold you should head into the corner because it’s 363.15 K over there**.
There’s no theoretical limit to the amount of energy we can throw at an object, but science has come up with a temperature that is the highest temperature that we can understand.
That temperature is a bit more than 1.41 x 1032 K. If you don’t know what that means***, it’s…
This massive, humongous temperature has its own name: it’s called the Planck temperature, after Max Planck who also had a distance named after him*****. It’s important because if you get any higher than this temperature… we don’t know what happens. Matter stops acting like matter should because it’s just too damned hot. There are those who think that if anything gets hot enough to reach the Planck temperature a black hole will be spontaneously created. This kind of black hole has a cool name: a kugelblitz.