Just wondering.
2006-07-01 12:06:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
well lets expand the concept... what absolute zero means is that weve taken so much energy out of the atoms that the rotation is almost stopped... so if we reversed the process and looked for the most possible energy we could put into the system we would have (drum roll from the science geeks!) an atom traveling at the speed of light!, creating a new series of infinite possiblities ( a new universe )
2006-07-01 12:13:40 · answer #1 · answered by djk15000 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
The Kelvin temperature scale (K) was developed by Lord Kelvin in the mid 1800s. The zero point of this scale is equivalent to -273.16 °C on the Celsius scale. This zero point is considered the lowest possible temperature of anything in the universe. Therefore, the Kelvin scale is also known as the "absolute temperature scale". At the freezing point of water, the temperature of the Kelvin scale reads 273 K. At the boiling point of water, it reads 373 K.
as to 100% heat
Using a technique employed by astronomers to determine stellar surface temperatures, chemists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have measured the temperature inside a single, acoustically driven collapsing bubble.
Their results seem out of this world.
"When bubbles in a liquid get compressed, the insides get hot -- very hot," said Ken Suslick, the Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry at Illinois and a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. "Nobody has been able to measure the temperature inside a single collapsing bubble before. The temperature we measured -- about 20,000 degrees Kelvin -- is four times hotter than the surface of our sun."
so for now that is the highest recordable temp!
2006-07-01 12:14:05 · answer #2 · answered by BigBadWolf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We could say that the temperature at which individual atomic particles (protons and neutrons) break down into their component quarks would be the highest you could go. Or the point at which matter converts back into pure energy. This is the condition that existed immediately after the Big Bang.
The weird thing is that we can go colder than absolute zero. It is possible to de-spin electrons and achieve a state of rest even lower (colder) than absolute zero.
2006-07-01 12:18:32 · answer #3 · answered by TychaBrahe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because we have yet to find what the maximum theoretical heat is. At absolute zero, matter contains no heat energy, so scientists devised what the temperature would be for that to occur. So really you can't get an absolute heat since heat is energy and you couldnt get a temperature hot enough for heat to have no energy (since the energy level keeps increasing).
2006-07-01 12:14:24 · answer #4 · answered by Dan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Absolute zero is defined as the point at which molecular motion stops. Can't get colder than that. Can always get hotter than whatever temp something is at.
2006-07-01 12:12:10 · answer #5 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well there couldnt be any absolute 100% heat. i think so because when the universe existed as that infinitely dense infintesimally small... object?... its temperature would most probably be infinite kelvins so there couldnt be limits. but i would contradict myself by saying that physics as we know it didnt hold for that pre-bang era. so you really cant say.
2006-07-01 13:47:15 · answer #6 · answered by shineitallaround 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes there is, once an object gets to a certain temp it becomes plasma,
2006-07-01 13:55:36 · answer #7 · answered by Richard H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋