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Re: Absolute Hot

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Question: is the analogy of thermal energy as particles flying around and bouncing into each other just analogy? At what temperature would the particles fly at the speed of light? > Above about 10^32K, particle energies become so large that gravitational forces between them would become as strong as other fundamental forces according to current theories. I see, the gravitation would become a problem even before the s…

You can't accelerate anything to the speed of light without an infinite amount of energy. It just takes more and more energy to get closer to that speed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light#/media/File:Lor...

Re: Absolute Hot

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Question: is the analogy of thermal energy as particles flying around and bouncing into each other just analogy? At what temperature would the particles fly at the speed of light? > Above about 10^32K, particle energies become so large that gravitational forces between them would become as strong as other fundamental forces according to current theories. I see, the gravitation would become a problem even before the s…

There's no finite level of kinetic energy at which the speed of an object exceeds c.

Re: Absolute Hot

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Looks like they found a way to measure my mix tape

If this were reddit I would've upvoted you, but this kind of cleverness should, if it constitutes the whole post, should be left to reddit.

Now, should this thread ultimately hehehe a discussion on the virtues and approaches to creating mixtapes it would be another thing, but at this point in time I'm not seeing this as a positive contribution to discussion. That is why I downvoted your genuinely amusing comment.

Re: Absolute Hot

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post #14
post #10

Question: is the analogy of thermal energy as particles flying around and bouncing into each other just analogy? At what temperature would the particles fly at the speed of light? > Above about 10^32K, particle energies become so large that gravitational forces between them would become as strong as other fundamental forces according to current theories. I see, the gravitation would become a problem even before the s…

There's no finite level of kinetic energy at which the speed of an object exceeds c.

I believe you mean, "There's no finite level of kinetic energy at which the speed of an object equals c."

Exceeding c is, of course, not known to be possible at all, even with infinite energy.

Re: Absolute Hot

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Good answer from Physics SE on why there's no upper limit to temperature: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1775/why-is-ther...

Would also add to this that ideas about what "temperature" means change when you are switching between equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In nonequilibrium thermodynamics a bunch of your equations go out the window, like the Boltzmann distribution, and all of the rules built on top of that which are many.

Re: Absolute Hot

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What is "simple english" below languages? Never seen this before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia It is an intentionally simplified version of English. Although, in this case, the meaning of the article seems to have been affected by the simplification. The English version makes it clear that this is a theoretical concept, whereas the Simple English version makes it sound like something concrete/absolute.

Ironically, I found the Simple English articles I tried to read harder to understand than the regular ones. Interesting concept, though.

Re: Absolute Hot

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post #16

Looks like they found a way to measure my mix tape

If this were reddit I would've upvoted you, but this kind of cleverness should, if it constitutes the whole post, should be left to reddit. Now, should this thread ultimately hehehe a discussion on the virtues and approaches to creating mixtapes it would be another thing, but at this point in time I'm not seeing this as a positive contribution to discussion. That is why I downvoted your genuinely amusing comment.

Not that I disagree with you, but I should point out that it's a reference to the video "Absolute hot" of the YouTube channel "Casually explained".
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