eli5 How is it that things on earth can be “hotter than the surface of the sun”? If the sun is giving energy to basically everything on earth, wouldn’t any earth-item or organism only be able to mimic a fraction of the sun’s energy/power output?
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One thing that hasn’t been mentioned is that the surface of the sun is cool compared to the interior of the sun. [It’s hotter than, like, Phoenix](https://whatif.xkcd.com/115/), but 5800 K is less than one hundredth of the temperature of the interior.
Even that temperature has been exceeded on Earth… by [a factor of a million](https://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/08/hot-stuff-cern-physicists-create-record-breaking-subatomic-soup.html) or so.
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