Physicists create highest man-made temperature ever - June 28th 2012

Stiffler2

http://www.slashgear.com/physicists-create-highest-man-made-temperature-ever-28236250/

Physicists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory have gone down in the Guinness World Records book as having created the highest man-made temperature ever recorded.

The scientists were smashing gold ions together using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The smashing together of the ions created a fluid called quark-gluon plasma.

The smashing together of those gold ions simulated conditions similar to those during the creation of the universe and generated a temperature of 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit. That is 250,000 times hotter than the temperature at the core of the sun. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is a gigantic 2.4 mile long ring where ions are accelerated to speeds close to that of light.


The experiment being conducted was called PHENIX. The experiment saw gold ions being accelerated around the ring from both directions and crashed together in one of six experimental chambers around the accelerator.

The researchers observed the very brief formation of quark-gluon plasma, which is described as and nearly frictionless fluid with a temperature of 4,000,000,000,000°

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Anyone have a light ?

smash

How could then read that temperature?

Stiffler2

smash wrote: »

How could then read that temperature?

with a really really tall mercury thermometer ?

JohnMarston

smash wrote: »

How could then read that temperature?

Lasers

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

somewhere in africa a child who hasn't had anything to eat for 2 weeks is thrilled at the announcement

smash

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

somewhere in africa a child who hasn't had anything to eat for 2 weeks is thrilled at the announcement

Doubt it. they don't get news over there!

Carles Puyol

Would that not burn through whatever container it was in?

Odaise Gaelach

7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit.

...Fahrenheit?!

krudler

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

somewhere in africa a child who hasn't had anything to eat for 2 weeks is thrilled at the announcement

stop all science until worlds problems are solved?

Wossack

smash wrote: »

How could then read that temperature?

similar to the BBQ test - hold your hand over it and count until your hand hurts

Skylinehead

smash wrote: »

How could then read that temperature?

Magnets.

Jester252

So the hottest place in the world is Brookhaven National Laboratory and the coldest is MIT

Pedant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFSjWsuqw6I

Thatnastyboy

There's children starving in Africa,

And look at you all, buying electronic equipment and paying for internet when you could be sending all of your money to feed the black babies :mad:


Thats fcuking hot though, deadly , I'm fascinated by physics and general science lately

JohnMarston

krudler wrote: »

stop all science until worlds problems are solved?

No, more like: Stop fruitless scientific endeavour until we've addressed basic human rights

splashthecash

smash wrote: »

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

somewhere in africa a child who hasn't had anything to eat for 2 weeks is thrilled at the announcement

Doubt it. they don't get news over there!

Agreed, and even if they did get to hear of this - I doubt they'd care. They'd be too busy worrying about where their next meal would come from. Also, a child wouldn't have the capability to comprehend the range of a temperature such as this, much less a child from Africa where education standards would be substantially less than that of a first or even second world country.

Dave0301

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

somewhere in africa a child who hasn't had anything to eat for 2 weeks is thrilled at the announcement

Cancel your internet subscription and use that money to feed said child if you feel that strongly about it.

opinion guy

Odaise Gaelach wrote: »

7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit.

...Fahrenheit?!

To be fair.....at that temperature does it really matter what label you stick on it ?

wobblyknees

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

somewhere in africa a child who hasn't had anything to eat for 2 weeks is thrilled at the announcement

Somewhere in africa a child who hasn't had anything to eat for 2 weeks is thrilled at the announcement, and also that you can afford a laptop, PC, smartphone and internet access to publish smart arse responses to interesting news items.

smash

smash wrote: »

How could then read that temperature?

They put someone in there, obviously.

"Yup, it's hot"

krudler

JohnMarston wrote: »

No, more like: Stop fruitless scientific endeavour until we've addressed basic human rights

so scientists should stop what they're doing until 3rd world countries sort their sh1t out, brilliant.

c_man

JohnMarston wrote: »

No, more like: Stop fruitless scientific endeavour until we've addressed basic human rights

Says the man on an internet forum...

pablomakaveli

JohnMarston wrote: »

No, more like: Stop fruitless scientific endeavour until we've addressed basic human rights

I dont think this is a fruitless endeavour given that extremely high tempertures are required for nuclear fusion which could be revolutionary for mankind.

ejmaztec

smash wrote: »

How could then read that temperature?

By sticking a finger in and then translating the decibel level of the loud scream of "Jesus, that's fuckin hot" into Celsius, using complicated maths.

splashthecash

JohnMarston wrote: »

No, more like: Stop fruitless scientific endeavour until we've addressed basic human rights

Ah come on, are you serious??

this kind of "pointless" scientific experimentation has been the basis for all manner of advancements. Would you have felt the same over the past number of years when the LHC project was going on? the result of this only this past week was the discovery of the elusive hoggs boson which is going to open the door to god knows what! Oh and before you say "pfft, yeah some tiny particle..great news". The LHC project inadvertidly lead to the discovery\creation of the world wide web, which you are currently using and is so central to all our lives you probably don't even realise it.

SeaFields

All these discoveries and advancements and still no hoverboards

JohnMarston

Sorry for irking so many people in this thread. I'm all for scientific advancement that benefits mankind, i just dont see the value in what was accomplished in reaching a higher man-made temperature.

krudler

SeaFields wrote: »

All these discoveries and advancements and still no hoverboards

Or lightsabers, or portal guns, get on it science.

Gurgle

SeaFields wrote: »

All these discoveries and advancements and still no hoverboards

Deadline is 2015, otherwise we have to accept that the 'Back to the Future' trilogy may not have been a genuine documentary.

norrie rugger

JohnMarston wrote: »

Sorry for irking so many people in this thread. I'm all for scientific advancement that benefits mankind, i just dont see the value in what was accomplished in reaching a higher man-made temperature.

No one saw the point in LASERs either.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

somewhere in africa a child who hasn't had anything to eat for 2 weeks is thrilled at the announcement

You know it is about time Africa fended for itself.


All the aid sent there over the past few decades. Ethiopia was supposed to be starving yet the population more than doubled.
Maybe that is why some kid in Africa is hungry.

I`d rather see money spent on scientific research than poured down the drain in Africa

JohnMarston

Gurgle wrote: »

Deadline is 2015, otherwise we have to accept that the 'Back to the Future' trilogy may not have been a genuine documentary.

Well the hoverboards and self-drying coats, cars that run on rubbish, self tying shoes, robots that walk your dog, etc

ejmaztec

krudler wrote: »

Or lightsabers, or portal guns, get on it science.

I've got a matter transportation chamber, if only they'd make another one somewhere where it's not pissing it down.:(

Stiffler2

splashthecash wrote: »

Ah come on, are you serious??

this kind of "pointless" scientific experimentation has been the basis for all manner of advancements. Would you have felt the same over the past number of years when the LHC project was going on? the result of this only this past week was the discovery of the elusive hoggs boson which is going to open the door to god knows what! Oh and before you say "pfft, yeah some tiny particle..great news". The LHC project inadvertidly lead to the discovery\creation of the world wide web, which you are currently using and is so central to all our lives you probably don't even realise it.

What ?
Please elaborate here ?

GarIT

I thought all secintific discoveries were supposed to be measured in Kelvins.

For people saying that we should be givin the money to Africa, you must not realise that giving money to Africa will not increase the amount of food in Africa, it would just increase the cost of food in Africa. For money to work some countries have to be poor, its just economics.

kowloon

Carles Puyol wrote: »

Would that not burn through whatever container it was in?

Magnetic confinement I think. It's not sitting in contact with the container. One of the physics forum people would be useful now.

Clareman

How the f**k can they calculate the temperature in Fahrenheit? That was invented by using the theory that the coldest you could get was freezing saltey water in Germany, use Kelvin ffs

Stiffler2

Clareman wrote: »

How the f**k can they calculate the temperature in Fahrenheit? That was invented by using the theory that the coldest you could get was freezing saltey water in Germany, use Kelvin ffs

tbf they are physicists and you proabably are not so I am going to go out on a limb here and say you are wrong and the physicists are correct.

there i said it

Nothingbetter2d

i bet you'd get some heat rash from that :P

sbsquarepants

Carles Puyol wrote: »

Would that not burn through whatever container it was in?

Well, not if it was in a thermos. Duh!!

Nothingbetter2d

Deleted User wrote: »

You know it is about time Africa fended for itself.


All the aid sent there over the past few decades. Ethiopia was supposed to be starving yet the population more than doubled.
Maybe that is why some kid in Africa is hungry.

I`d rather see money spent on scientific research than poured down the drain in Africa

i totally agree .. africa has no intention of sorting itself out so long as aid keeps pouring in. almost akin to the welfare spongers not taking jobs during the boom years.

Nothingbetter2d

well it looks like scientists are well on their way to creating scorthing hot universes with higg's boson and gold ions :P

hooradiation

JohnMarston wrote: »

Sorry for irking so many people in this thread. I'm all for scientific advancement that benefits mankind, i just dont see the value in what was accomplished in reaching a higher man-made temperature.

Thankfully, nobody has made you the grand arbiter of what constitutes a worthwhile scientific experiment.
So your inability to perceive the worth in a scientific achievement will continue to matter fuck all.

listermint

pablomakaveli wrote: »

I dont think this is a fruitless endeavour given that extremely high tempertures are required for nuclear fusion which could be revolutionary for mankind.

Major Burn!









il get my coat...

seamus

smash wrote: »

How could then read that temperature?

Hot stuff emits energy waves. By measuring the properties of these energy waves you can calculate how hot the source was.

GarIT wrote: »

I thought all secintific discoveries were supposed to be measured in Kelvins.

They do. Stupid American site for some ridiculous reason decided to stick a Farenheit conversion in there.

The actual measurement was around 4 trillion Kelvins.

El Guapo!

seamus wrote: »

They do. Stupid American site for some ridiculous reason decided to stick a Farenheit conversion in there.

The actual measurement was around 4 trillion Kelvins.

I'm surprised they didn't try to measure it in chicken nuggets.

JohnMarston

hooradiation wrote: »

So your inability to perceive the worth in a scientific achievement will continue to matter fuck all.

Yes, i cannot percieve the invention of the lightbulb, the mobile phone, the airplane, personal computers, the internet and so on.

Its all just over my head :rolleyes:

seamus

seamus wrote: »

Hot stuff emits energy waves. By measuring the properties of these energy waves you can calculate how hot the source was.
They do. Stupid American site for some ridiculous reason decided to stick a Farenheit conversion in there.

The actual measurement was around 4 trillion Kelvins.

The ridiculous reason being that most people, including those of us who studied it cant remember the conversion. And if we did, we'd read it and turn it back into celcius anyway.

Its not a scientific paper.

norrie rugger

JohnMarston wrote: »

Yes, i cannot percieve the invention of the lightbulb, the mobile phone, the airplane, personal computers, the internet and so on.

Its all just over my head :rolleyes:

When they invented the laser, that had no real world application, would you have said that the money would have been better spent on aid?

skelliser

Stiffler2 wrote: »

What ?
Please elaborate here ?

the world wide web/internet was created at CERN to help scientists across europe study all the data produced from the site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web#1979.E2.80.931991:_Development_of_the_World_Wide_Web

skelliser

and they didnt set out to generate the highest temperature FFS!

its not like they were bored and decided to have a laugh.

Collisions in particle accelerators generate massive amounts of heat and they calculated the associated temperature.

and as alluded to earlier super hot plasma is the way forward to getting nuclear fusion working.

Nuclear fusion would end the worlds energy issues within a decade. As the main fuel is contained in water.