eli5: Why is it temperatures can go up to the trillions but only down to -273?
In: Physics
Theres basically a small temperature range where atoms are solids, a minuscule range below that where theyre wacky, a small range where theyre liquid, and then an absurdly huge range where theyre gasses. Because our form of life needs solids liquids and gasses we have a limited scale to measure things with, if we were beings of pure gas we might make the scale more centered around the actual range of possible temperatures.
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