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

  • 06-07-2012 11:44AM
    #1
    Stiffler2
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    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 ?


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  • #2
    smash
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    How could then read that temperature?


  • #3
    Stiffler2
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    smash wrote: »
    How could then read that temperature?

    with a really really tall mercury thermometer ?


  • #4
    JohnMarston
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    smash wrote: »
    How could then read that temperature?

    Lasers


  • #5
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    somewhere in africa a child who hasn't had anything to eat for 2 weeks is thrilled at the announcement


  • #6
    smash
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    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!


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  • #7
    Carles Puyol
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    Would that not burn through whatever container it was in?


  • #8
    Odaise Gaelach
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    7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit.

    ...Fahrenheit?!


  • #9
    krudler
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    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?


  • #10
    Wossack
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    smash wrote: »
    How could then read that temperature?

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


  • #11
    Skylinehead
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    smash wrote: »
    How could then read that temperature?

    Magnets.


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  • #12
    Jester252
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    So the hottest place in the world is Brookhaven National Laboratory and the coldest is MIT


  • #13
    Pedant
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFSjWsuqw6I


  • #14
    Thatnastyboy
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    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 :D , I'm fascinated by physics and general science lately


  • #15
    JohnMarston
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    krudler wrote: »
    stop all science until worlds problems are solved?

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


  • #16
    splashthecash
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    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.


  • #17
    Dave0301
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    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.


  • #18
    opinion guy
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    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 ?


  • #19
    wobblyknees
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    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.


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
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    smash wrote: »
    How could then read that temperature?

    They put someone in there, obviously.

    "Yup, it's hot"


  • #21
    krudler
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    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.


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  • #22
    c_man
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    JohnMarston wrote: »
    No, more like: Stop fruitless scientific endeavour until we've addressed basic human rights

    Says the man on an internet forum...


  • #23
    pablomakaveli
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    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.


  • #24
    ejmaztec
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    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.


  • #25
    splashthecash
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    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.


  • #26
    SeaFields
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    All these discoveries and advancements and still no hoverboards :(


  • #27
    JohnMarston
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    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.


  • #28
    krudler
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    SeaFields wrote: »
    All these discoveries and advancements and still no hoverboards :(

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


  • #29
    Gurgle
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    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.


  • #30
    norrie rugger
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    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.


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
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    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


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