• Question: Does temperature have a limit? (does it ever stop?)

    Asked by Ben to Joe, Jos, Kate, Lisa, Pierre on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Pierre Lasorak

      Pierre Lasorak answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Hi
      I don’t think so, temperature is related to vibration, so when nothing is vibrating you have the absolute 0 temperature (around -273°C if I’m not wrong). But you can always have more vibrations! The only thing is that the more you have vibration the more energy you have to break things…

    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      I think the maximum temperature some theories allow is the Plank temperature which about: 140,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 K
      above this the rules of the current universe don’t apply.

    • Photo: Lisa Simmons

      Lisa Simmons answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      There is a bottom limit, absolute zero, when all the vibration stop. Since temperature is directly related to vibrations and there can be no limit to the number of vibrations, then theoretically there is no upper limit. However, as the temperature increases the energy in the system increases so as energy is lost the temperature will decrease

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