I’ve heard a few times now in various scientific fields, mainly experiments, about things getting as hot as the sun.
How is this possible? Surely if you do something and you create heat that is that hot it would melt anything surrounding it?
Would love to know how this works 🙂
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Well, the sun is extremely hot, millions of degrees, but in its core. Turns out that heat transfers very slowly to its surface so any energy that the surface of the sun gets from below, it radiates it very fast, making it not that hot. If you drop tungsten on the surface of the sun (assuming you can get it past the sun’s corona), it would melt but not boil.
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