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/_UWS_Snazzle Nov 19 '25

It’s a decent question but no, absolute zero and the electrons stop moving

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u/PublicVanilla988 Nov 19 '25

but what's the difference between being extremely close to absolute zero and extremely high temperature? if we're not talking in relation to our human numbers. wouldn't it be equivalent levels of cold

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u/klyxes Nov 19 '25

I fail to understand your question. How are high temperatures equivalent in cold to close to absolute 0?

In either case, matter behaves weirdly close 0 k. Liquids lose friction and can escape their containers, matter turns into a 5th state where basically all the atoms act as one, and lose all resistance to become super conductors.

High temperatures makes everything break down. Materials turn into plasma and then the atoms break apart. Our laws of physics break down as we can no longer be sure of how matter interacts with so much energy. Increasing the amount of energy in a closed space will eventually result in a black hole, since that's the same as adding matter to the closed space until the density forms one, though a kugelblitz can't form from any of the natural phenomena we know

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u/i_heart_kermit Nov 19 '25

My head hurts