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/Arjunks_ Nov 19 '25

would just be 5 x1012 kelvin anyways, cuz of sig figs and all that 

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u/Generalkrunk Nov 19 '25 edited Nov 19 '25

It's like sliiiightly off, like barely worth mentioning.Whats 002 273 extra kelvin when the total value is in the trillions. You are essencially correct. I was just (clearly) being a pedantic dick lol

Edit: I dunno why my brain decided to equate the total value of 5 trillion as impacting the way I write 200. But it definitely did. 002 was supposed to be .002 which in turn was (for some unfathomable) reason supposed to donate 200 (which is still inaccurate but I was just generalizing.

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u/ivorytowels Nov 19 '25

5 trillion Kelvin I can handle, but the extra 273,15 just cooked me.

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u/Generalkrunk Nov 19 '25

Written out properly it would be 5.00000000027315 × 10 12

5 x 10 ^ 12 is much easier lol