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Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade... by unreal37 on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @11:50AM (#4381495)
Before reading the article, I wondered how hot that would be, like 5000 degrees C or something. For reference, the surface of the Sun is approx 10000 F/5500 C.

They're claiming 5.5 trillion degrees Celsius. My mind is unable to comprehend that. A billion times hotter than the surface of the Sun...

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Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade... by aroberge on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @12:03PM (#4381583)
Don't confuse the temperature at the surface of the Sun (5000 C or so, which is quite cool) with the temperature in the interior of the Sun (15 000 000 C or so ... quite a bit hotter). Still, it pales in comparison with the temperatures achieved in that experiment.
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