One for Clarky - very hot stuff

[Parrot of doom]

http://www.livescience.com/technology/060308_sandia_z.html

Whats your take on that? Not having a go like, but I do enjoy reading your posts, its always nice to have someone around who thinks 'out of the box'

 

[Ikerous]

Also, when the high temperature was achieved, the Z machine was releasing more energy than was originally put in, something that usually occurs only in nuclear reactions.

Sandia consultant Malcolm Haines theorizes that some unknown energy source is involved, which is providing the machine with an extra jolt of energy just as the plasma ions are beginning to slow down.

Neat

My physics professor told us to ignore vacuum energy when we went over conservation of energy made me think of clarky
(although he talked about a fairly simple experiment involving vacuum energy which was pretty interesting)

 

[Dekstar]

Record Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees in Lab

I can imagine it now:
"Garry, we've done it! Hottest temperature EVER in a lab!"
"Quick John, get the marshmallows!"

EDIT:

Thermonuclear explosions are estimated to reach only tens to hundreds of millions of degrees Kelvin

ONLY?

 

[kirovman]

"lol, I was just playing with the knobs, I don't know how I did it"

 

[Solaris]

I wonder if it really is a great idea to make something that hot.
Shutting down, attempting shutdown, it's not, it's not shutting down it's ahhhhh

 

[Dekstar]

How do you think they noticed it was that hot?

"Hey, Dave your shirt's spontaneously combusting....



... Hahahaha look at him roll! Go Dave!"

 

[kirovman]

Well, Negative temperatures are so hot, that they're hotter than infinite temperature.

 

[Vegeta897]

Well, Negative temperatures are so hot, that they're hotter than infinite temperature.

Wait, negative temperature? I thought the lowest possible temperature was absolute zero? (zero kelvin)

Although I'm 99 percent sure I'm wrong because I know you are a science genius.

 

[Ikerous]

I thought the lowest possible temperature was absolute zero? (zero kelvin)

It is.

 

[kirovman]

If you measure temperatures by spin population, it's possible to get negative spin temperatures.

Although that's not relevant to this in any way.

[/derail]

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

It's not like they stabbed it with a thermometer. They are probably just guessing from the resulting vaporization of tungsten and other indicators of whatever was going on.

(<- no idea.)

 

[kirovman]

Well, if they're going to make such a claim, they'd have had to have had some kind of thermometer (obviously not a mecury glass tube though).
Read thermometer as "Some kind of method of measuring temperature"

They can't just say "LOL, I bet that was the hottest temperature ever. I bet it was 3.6 billion degrees"

 

[DEATH eVADER]

http://www.livescience.com/technology/060308_sandia_z.html

Whats your take on that? Not having a go like, but I do enjoy reading your posts, its always nice to have someone around who thinks 'out of the box'

Yeah, I saw the link featured on C-C AM, but I knew somebody would post it, so I didn't have to

Is it even wise to experiment on how high temperatures can get, lets blame them for Global Warming

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Well, if they're going to make such a claim, they'd have had to have had some kind of thermometer (obviously not a mecury glass tube though).
Read thermometer as "Some kind of method of measuring temperature"

They can't just say "LOL, I bet that was the hottest temperature ever. I bet it was 3.6 billion degrees"

Right. I was surmising they had some kind of end product that would give them a working temperature range, but now that I tihnk about it they probably have some video equipment and x-ray camera pointed right at it discerning the thing through some temperature estimating software.

Is it even wise to experiment on how high temperatures can get, lets blame them for Global Warming

The whole area contained within the experiment being superheated was less than your pinky finger.
The heat came off in waves of x-rays as opposed to infrared radiation and was likely inhibited by lead walls somewhere.
Not only this, it probably lasted only milliseconds.

 

[JellyWorld]

I think they can tell the temperatire by the radiation signature given out by the particles.

 

[kirovman]

Yes they'd have had all kinds of detectors pointing at it, or "cameras", if you will.

 

[Gray Fox]

But what is the hottests temperature you can make.
I mean don't things get hotter the faster it vibrates, but since the speed of light is the max you can go what kind of a temperature can you achieve at the speed of light.

 

[kirovman]

Speed of matter is a rather crude way of measuring temperature, the temperature is dependent on the Energy of each degree of freedom. Whilst there is a limit to the speed, there is no limit on the energy that these can have.

 

[Qonfused]

This is awesome. But, what's the point? Is anything good going to come out of this or is it a "I reached the highest temperate, lick my balls," kinda thing?

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

I imagine if one could contain and control this experiment for an extended period of time, it could be used as an energy source as the heat energy escaping is greater than the electrical energy being used to charge it.

Just a wild guess.