CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade temperatures ever

Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade... by cygx on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @11:21AM (#4381326)

is there a real upper limit on temperature?

Technical limitations aside, not really. However, there's the Planck temperature of 1.42×10^32 K where our physical models break down.

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Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade... by glhaynes on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @03:38PM (#4382714)

Is there any simple way of explaining why our model would break down at that point?

The first (utterly naive) guess that springs to my mind would be that at that point the vibration would be sufficiently fast that when sampled at a Planck time interval, there'd be no motion at all. Like overflow of an unsigned int. This is almost surely wrong. :)

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Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade... by twiceaday on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @04:09PM (#4382841)

Interesting read: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/absolute-hot.html

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