4 Trillion Degrees: Hottest Matter Ever Created In a Lab

February 20th, 2010

This isn’t Fahrenheit either. This is Celsius (Go to bottom to see Celsius to Fahrenheit calculation). Farhenheit is over 7 Trillion degrees .

Scientists after a collision of gold atoms traveling at the speed of light took this temperature from a formation of a dense glob of matter. The matter was meaured at an estimated 4 trillion degrees Celsius, which equates to about 250,000 times hotter than the sun’s interior, and higher than any temperature ever reached in a laboratory, researchers reported February 15 at a meeting of the American Physical Society. No msm nutritional supplement is going to make you lose the kind of weight that heat would.

“We hope experiments of this kind give windows into new phases of matter,” comments physicist Chris Quigg of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., who was not involved in the work. “There is something new to study.”

The gold-gold collisions created a blob of the material that was about a trillionth of a centimeter across, and existed only for a little more than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. So scientists couldn’t stick a thermometer in it, says Barbara Jacak of Stony Brook University in New York, who worked on the temperature measurement.

Mind=BLOWN.

The conversions (taken from WikiAnswers):

To go from Fahrenheit to Celsius:

* Begin by subtracting 32 from the Fahrenheit number.
* Divide the answer by 9.
* Then multiply that answer by 5.

For example- if it is 70 degrees F outside, and you want to know the temperature in C:

* 70-32=38
* 38/9 =4.2
* 4.2 x 5 = 21.1

It is about 21 degrees Celsius outside

To go from Celsius to Fahrenheit:

* Begin by multiplying the Celsius temperature by 9.
* Divide the answer by 5.
* Now add 32.