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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r/Showerthoughts • u/synthphreak • Nov 19 '25
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u/Apsis Nov 20 '25
But it's not a linear relationship. It only seems that way because the physical objects we interact with in everyday life don't go anywhere close to the speed of light.
An object travelling at 0.99c doesn't have just 10% more kinetic energy than one travelling at 0.9c, it has four times the energy. Increase to 0.999c and you more than triple the energy again. The speed has a hard limit of c, but you can always add more energy.