• Question: what is the hottest anything has ever got on the earths surface

    Asked by #super_ninja_swag_collie_pupUK333 to Joe, Jos, Kate, Lisa on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Joshaniel Cooper

      Joshaniel Cooper answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      The hottest thing on the earths surface would technically be the protons in the LHC which I think would be about 6 x10^16C, or sixty thousand million million degrees. At these energies the word temperature doesn’t make so much sense though

    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      lava can be about 1200C, but that doesn’t really come close to the LHC!

    • Photo: Lisa Simmons

      Lisa Simmons answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      I’d go with what Jos has said 🙂

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