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Is There Such a Thing As Absolute Hot?
AlpineR writes "Is there an opposite to absolute zero? An article from PBS's NOVA online explains several theories of the maximum possible temperature. Maybe it's the Planck temperature, 10^32 K, beyond which the known laws of physics break down. Or maybe just 10^30 K, the limit of some versions of string theory. If space is actually 11-dimensional then the maximum temperature could even be as low as 10^17 K, attainable by the Large Hadron Collider. Or maybe infinite temperature wraps around to negative temperature and absolute hot is the same as absolute cold."
Good you posted as anonymous, since everyone is going to be calling you a crackpot for daring to question the sacred cow of physics.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
didn't the failure of the mars probe result from an EU firm creating something and not being about to do the math properly when turning the project over? And how does this relate to the European probe that went AWOL in the same time frame?
Making something easy shouldn't be a prerequisite for science. Especially when something is intended to the general mass population. I'm sorry something as trivial as measurements ruined something for you. For the rest of us, we can get past this stuff and enjoy the thought process. Even if it turns out to be more complexed then we hoped.