Awesome Temperature Facts for Girls Having Trouble with Small Talk ...

By A.J.

Awesome Temperature Facts for Girls Having Trouble with Small Talk ...

I don’t know about you, but where I live, it's so freakin' hot right now that I think I'm starting to understand what a roasted chicken feels like. But let's forget about personal comfort (or lack thereof) for a while and take a closer look at temperature, this fundamental measurement in physics, and find out some cool facts about it!

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The Planck Temperature

Have you ever wondered how hot things can get? Well, many scientists surely have. And the short answer is that nobody really knows for sure. The hottest temperature believed to have ever existed in the universe is called the Planck temperature, and they say it occurred a fraction of a second (10^-43 seconds, to be more precise) after the Big Bang. It's about 10^32 Kelvin, which means 255 nonillion degrees F! To put that into perspective, it's billion billion times hotter than the temperature of quasars and gamma ray bursts. For even more perspective, know that the Sun is only around 10,000 degrees F at its surface.

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What's the Coldest Known Place in Our Solar System?

You won't believe this, but it's actually on our good ol' moon! In some craters on the moon, due to their towering rims that block the Sun from ever reaching their center, the temperatures are only about 30 degrees C (86 F) above absolute zero. These temperatures, as measured by NASA, are even colder than those on Pluto!

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How about the Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth?

Some people establish their home sweet home in the most unlikely of places. The towns of Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon, both in Siberia (not a big surprise, is it?) are the coldest permanently inhabited places on Earth. The temperatures there average below -50 degrees F in Winter. At this point, what with the heat here where I live, moving to Siberia sounds quite appealing actually…

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What's the Hottest Man-Made Temperature?

It's 7.2 trillion degrees F, about 250,000 higher than the temperature at the Sun's core. This scorching temperature was achieved in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, at the Brooklyn Natural Laboratory, in an attempt to recreate Big Bang-like conditions.

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Scientists Used to Believe Heat Was a Substance

Until the late 19th century, it was widely believed that heat was a fluid or gas (called caloric) that flowed from a hotter body to a colder one. This sounds so crazy nowadays, right? What's even more interesting is that many of the predictions that arose from the caloric theory actually hold true, despite the fact that they're based on a huge misunderstanding.

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Outer Space is Getting Colder

While we're facing global warming, it seems that outer space is constantly getting colder. Theoretical physicists and astronomers have long predicted this, and, recently, measurements taken by an international team from Australia, France, Sweden and Germany have confirmed that, indeed, the universe is cooling down by around 1 degree Celsius (33.8 F) every 3 billion years.

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Do You Really Lose Most of Your Body Heat through Your Head?

No. Your head is no more efficient at losing heat than the rest of your body parts. The amount of heat any part of your body can lose largely depends on its level of exposure. If you wear shorts on a cold winter day, you will easily lose more heat through your legs than your head. Your head simply seems to get colder because of its high concentration of nerve cells, making it 5 times more sensitive to temperature changes than other body parts.

What do you think about these facts regarding temperature and heat? Do you know other interesting ones you'd like to share with us?

Sources:
pbs.org
telegraph.co.uk
listverse.com
en.wikipedia.org
thehindubusinessline.com
newscientist.com

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@A.J. Green you always post the best articles on this site! I wish more women wrote about the subjects you do! Stay amazing!

I live in the Phoenix area of AZ.. It is soooo hot right now, this week it's 108-113

Thanks for the article!

With all due respect, this post is about facts relating to temperature, not about who or what created the universe. Imho, by injecting "God" into the discussion, you dismiss the facts, and I don't think that's fair☹️

I love your articles but if the moon is 30°c that is like a warm spring day in Australia. Surely the moon is colder than that!

Yesterday the high, where I live, was 106 degrees Fahrenheit. 😖

Be careful travelling in Africa or around parts of the equator as it can get to the dangerous temperature of 50*C ( people can die).

Good post AJ. You must have a very inquiring mind. Your posts are always so interesting. I have found I enjoy temperature extremes. I have been to the desert, enjoyed that, experienced 30 below F with a 35 mph wind and thought it was cool (pardon the pun). Choosing what to wearIs easy in extreme climates as well. Hot out? Very little. Cold out? All you can put on and layer it up! :) Interesting post.

Aussie readers: lets not forget the week in January last year where the highest temperature was 45 degrees (104 fahrenheit) - I was in Adelaide that week on holiday and much happier in the accommodation than being out!!

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