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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>If the sun is giving energy to basically everything on earth,
Its not. That is just totally false and not how any of this works at all. It doesn’t even make sense.
Also, the sun specifically has a certain amount of heat and temperature due to the reactions in it and the type of star it is. We can do reactions that get much hotter. Our sun isn’t actually that hot when you start talking about things that are really really hot. Our sun isn’t even that hot for a sun, its about 6000 C, which is roughly in the lower-mid range of heat for stars. Some very hot stars are 2x-4x hotter, and those even on the hot range of things we can make hot, aren’t even that hot (but still really hot of course). Really hot stars may be like 20,000 degrees C. We can use science and get things to a 1,000,000,000+ degrees C
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