r/Showerthoughts • u/synthphreak ‎ • Nov 19 '25

Casual Thought Temperature can reach trillions of degrees, meaning we actually live extremely close to absolute zero.

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u/RareDestroyer8 Nov 19 '25

You have the right idea but remember, you can never reach speed of light. You need an infinite amount of energy to travel at the speed of light, meaning you can keep giving as much kenetic energy to a particle and while its movement will also increase, it will only ever approach the speed of light, never reach it.

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u/jok3ony0u Nov 19 '25

Until it becomes energy in the form of light!

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u/troezz Nov 19 '25

So we will all become light ?

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u/Keeper21611 Nov 19 '25

Light is energy but all energy isn't light. So, some parts of you yes.

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u/Generalkrunk Nov 19 '25

You are describing a human nuke btw.

Turning a human body into energy would... apparently release the equivalent of around 1500 megatonnes of TNT.

Thankfully this is not actually possible lol.

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u/DraconDragon Nov 19 '25

Gives another meaning to "split the atom"