eli5: Why is it temperatures can go up to the trillions but only down to -273?

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eli5: Why is it temperatures can go up to the trillions but only down to -273?

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Lol. It’s because that’s the scale that’s human-defined for temperature. It’s completely arbitrary, but 0 Kelvin means that molecules have stopped moving.

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