{"id":151,"date":"2007-04-13T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=151"},"modified":"2007-04-13T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T15:24:06","slug":"howhotcantheuniverseget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/howhotcantheuniverseget\/","title":{"rendered":"How hot CAN the universe get?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since learning about absolute zero (the temperature at which no heat remains in a substance), I always was curious as to whether there was an analogue on the toasty end of the spectrum.  Is there a limit to how hot a temperature can exist?  I never had a physics teacher who could answer that question, but the internet today &#8220;has done it&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/classics\/a3_347.html:\">http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/classics\/a3_347.html:<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;The highest possible temperature, called the Planck temperature, is equal to 10^32 degrees Kelvin. For comparison, the center of the sun bubbles along at 15 million degrees K (15 x 10^6); silicon can be created by fusion at 1 billion K (10^9).&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/mike\/SunEarth.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThanks to &#8220;The Straight Dope&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/classics\/a3_347.html\">http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/classics\/a3_347.html<\/a> for finally answering this question that has bothered me for years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since learning about absolute zero (the temperature at which no heat remains in a substance), I always was curious as to whether there was an analogue on the toasty end of the spectrum. Is there a limit to how hot a temperature can exist? I never had a physics teacher who could answer that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[274,318],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-physics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}