It’s the sun, it’s literally a burning ball of gas providing energy to countless things millions of kilometers away… How can humans make something that is hotter than that? And how is lightning hotter than the sun?
Edit: just to clarify how is it TECHNOLOGICALLY possible? Like what do you have to do to make something hotter than the sun?
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The sun is incredibly hot in some places like its centre and actually quite cool on the surface. It’s 5000k on the surface and 100’s of millions in the core.
It’s easy to get to 5000k. My gas welding torch does that. 5000k is the temperature produced when you burn acetylene in Oxygen. An arc welder has a plasma of 50,000 degrees, just like lightning and they are essentially the same thing. Lightning is a lot of electrical charge in a very small space so it heats up the ionized air to a very high temperature
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