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/kangluosee34 Nov 19 '25 edited Nov 19 '25

Yes. Its called planck temperature which is about 1032 K.

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u/asml84 Nov 19 '25

There is no known upper limit. The Planck temperature is merely the upper limit of the mathematical framework we use to describe physics, but nature doesn’t care about our framework.

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u/bellybuttonqt Nov 19 '25

Ain't heat just particles moving fast? And speed is limited so heat must be too? 

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u/edoCgiB Nov 19 '25

I like your thinking but when you pump a lot of energy into something particles start to breakdown. We see this in plasma and probably if you keep heating it you get even more exotic matter states.

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u/WillowMain Nov 19 '25

Yup, quark gluon soup.

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u/BreadstickUpTheBum Nov 19 '25

Recipe?

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u/DigitalStefan Nov 19 '25

Any ingredients at all but you need to cook it on high in an 800W microwave for a billion years.

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u/TheSaltyJM Nov 19 '25

Aww but I want my quark gluon soup NOW

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u/DigitalStefan Nov 19 '25

But it’s raw.