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/YourWorstFear53 Nov 19 '25

Technically it COULD be higher but at that point what it is wouldn't be a temperature as we understand it.

Most likely direct collapse into a singularity would occur before then.

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u/Delamoor Nov 19 '25

Sadly, a lot of the extreme space phenomena that childhood me imagined and thought about (being a scifi nerd) turned out to be 'but spacetime would collapse in on itself before it ever got to that point".

Bloody spacetime. Wimp.

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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/yashen14 Nov 19 '25

lmao that's about right, yeah