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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We just happen to live around the lower end of the spectrum in terms of temperatures across the universe. Life gets harder to support at higher temperatures for a number of reasons, one being that things start to become unstable, they have so much energy at those higher temperatures molecules literally breakdown or react more readily with others.

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