BBC Science Focus

IS THERE SUCH THING AS A MAXIMUM TEMPERATUR­E?

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Current theories of physics break down once the temperatur­e of an object reaches the ‘Planck temperatur­e’, which is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000°C.

At that temperatur­e, an object would emit radiation with so much energy that every photon would create its own tiny black hole. The whole Universe was very briefly at this temperatur­e, about 10-43s after the Big Bang. Overall, it’s a hundred trillion, trillion times hotter than the Sun.

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