Physicists produce highest man-made temperature: 7 trillion degrees
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[quote]Physicists produce highest man-made temperature: 7 trillion degrees
Physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have smashed gold ions together to produce a quark-gluon plasma like that which existed in the first instant after the Big Bang that created the universe, and in doing so have produced what Guinness World Records says is the highest man-made temperature ever, 7.2 trillion degrees. That is about 250,000 times hotter than the temperature at the core of the sun.
Quarks are the elementary particles from which all other particles, including protons, neutrons and electrons, are made. They normally bind together so tightly that they are virtually never observed in isolation. The binding force that holds them together is provided by massless particles called gluons.
In the first ten-millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was composed of what is known as a quark-gluon plasma, but that immediately condensed into the matter we now know.
Scientists have been trying to re-create the conditions of the Big Bang to get a better understanding of how the universe was created. At Brookhaven, they are doing it with a large accelerator called the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC, a 2.4-mile-long ring in which ions are accelerated to speeds near that of light.
In an experiment called PHENIX, researchers accelerated gold ions in both directions around the ring, ultimately smashing them together in one of six experimental chambers around the accelerator. The team then observed the very brief formation of the quark-gluon plasma, which turned out to be a nearly frictionless fluid with a temperature of [b]4 trillion degrees Celsius (7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit), a feat that has now been recognized by the folks at Guinness.[/b]
"There are many cool things about this ultra-hot matter," said Brookhaven physicist Steven Vigdor in a Brookhaven blog. "We expected to reach these temperatures -- that is, after all, why RHIC was built -- but we did not at all anticipate the nearly perfect liquid behavior."
Surprisingly, other researchers have observed a similar frictionless liquid behavior in trapped atoms held near absolute zero. "This is just one among many unexpected connections we've found between RHIC physics and other scientific forefronts. The unity of physics is a beautiful thing," Vigdor wrote.
The record certainly won't last long, however. Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe have produced a plasma with an energy density three times higher than that produced at RHIC, which should translate into a 30% higher temperature. They have not, however, announced what the measured temperature actually is.
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Hot.
That is quite warm.
Now now now that's Fahrenheit.
I wonder what the hottest temperature in the universe at any given time is.
Also, my pun sense is tingling.
Shiit mah neega fried bacon in a second.
[QUOTE=mac338;36610817]I wonder what the hottest temperature in the universe at any given time is.
Also, my pun sense is tingling.[/QUOTE]
I read somewhere that the universe was infinitely hot because it was infintely dense.
Then again, I read wrong things a lot.
Also, while reading up on the Big Bang on wikipedia, I realized how dirty it sounded:
[quote]It is generally assumed that when the Universe was young and very hot,[/quote]
better put that shit into saunas now
So what temperature would physicists need to create to accidentally burn a hole in the atmosphere, causing a chain reaction that would burn all life off of this planet? Because I thought 7 Trillion degrees, Fahrenheit, would be that magic number. Guess not.
Reproduce effect, start fusion, ???, profit
Come on [I]get on with it[/I] I want my flying carrrrrr.
Nuclear fusion please! :D
I find it irritating that it took them five paragraphs to say what unit of measurement they were using.
That's pretty cool.
Imagine getting a burn,7 trillion degrees in temperature, on your finger.
Did they super-heat a Hot Pocket?
[QUOTE=SmashBrosFan11;36611183]Imagine getting a burn,7 trillion degrees in temperature, on your finger.[/QUOTE]
what finger.
[QUOTE=Xenomoose;36610924]So what temperature would physicists need to create to accidentally burn a hole in the atmosphere, causing a chain reaction that would burn all life off of this planet? Because I thought 7 Trillion degrees, Fahrenheit, would be that magic number. Guess not.[/QUOTE]
As far as I know it wouldn't be possible with heat, since the atmosphere is gas anyway. There's a hole in the ozone layer above Australia but that's because of all the CFCs we used in the 20th century.
We don't use that barbaric measurement over here.
Im surprised the room didn't discintrameltacombustify
[QUOTE=SmashBrosFan11;36611183]Imagine getting a burn,7 trillion degrees in temperature, on your finger.[/QUOTE]
"My finger just TURNED INTO PLASMA!"
Eh.
Beats living in Florida.
[QUOTE=SmashBrosFan11;36611183]Imagine getting a burn,7 trillion degrees in temperature, on your finger.[/QUOTE]
I'd bring the panthenol. :v:
[QUOTE=Jin;36611202]Did they super-heat a Hot Pocket?[/QUOTE]
the result would probably taste better than a regular Hot Pocket
[QUOTE=Xenomoose;36610924]So what temperature would physicists need to create to accidentally burn a hole in the atmosphere, causing a chain reaction that would burn all life off of this planet? Because I thought 7 Trillion degrees, Fahrenheit, would be that magic number. Guess not.[/QUOTE]
What.
[QUOTE=Dacheet;36610863]I read somewhere that the universe was infinitely hot because it was infintely dense.
Then again, I read wrong things a lot.
Also, while reading up on the Big Bang on wikipedia, I realized how dirty it sounded:[/QUOTE]
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the universe once looked like this
I would like to have a number on the energy to make this comparable.
Wolfram gives 172 MeV for each particle. (assuming two gold atoms smashed)
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Eh, you know. I mean, don't where a long sleeve shirt or anything, but some deodorant will probably help too.
Jesus holy shit 250,000 times hotter than the core of the sun? Fuck mang.
Toasteh
oh wait it was plasma off gold ions nvm
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