Daily Archives: 02/16/2010
How hot is 4 trillion degrees Celsius?
Scientists have produced the hottest temperature ever in a laboratory – 4 trillion degrees Celsius! That equates to an astounding 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit which is an unimaginable 250,000 times warmer than the center of the Sun. The temperature was sustained for less than a billionth of a second. It was achieved by smashing gold particles together at a very large and powerful particle accelerator at New York’s Brookhaven National Laboratory.
