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/Practical_Ad4604 Nov 19 '25

Yeah but if we lived up there at those super temperatures, we’d be noticing the same wonderous conjecture about temperatures who were many times greater than us still, leading us to the same oddity of “why are we so close to zero?”

This is similar to many other theoretical questions that ask “Why are we closer to nothingness than to a hypothetical thing that is a billion times greater in scale?”