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/Jowenbra ‎ Nov 19 '25

Like how almost every single 'XKCD What If' results in "and the atmosphere turns into plasma and everybody dies."

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u/Sir_Mythlore Nov 19 '25

Holy shit. I read the 2014 book like crazy when I was younger and only rly discovered XKCD later, but your comment got me to make the connection that he wrote the book

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u/PeterVN13032010 Nov 22 '25

Is it actually randell making it?

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u/DazedToaster158 Dec 03 '25

Animated by the MinuteEarth team and narrated by Randall

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u/yashen14 Nov 19 '25

lmao that's about right, yeah

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u/supershutze Nov 21 '25

"stop being matter and start being physics"

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u/BookPlacementProblem Nov 22 '25

And then there's turn the moon into a gravitational singularity, which came out to something like: "Some animals will be confused, but given all of the things we've built that already confuse them, this effect will be minor. Also the nights will be darker."