Things on Earth being ‘As hot as the sun’

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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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time is the important factor here. the sun is largely consistent in pumping out steady heat. much of these instances where something gets as hot as the surface of the sun will only be for an extremely short period of time and in a very small space, so while there’s a lot of heat, its overall a small amount of energy available that instantly gets spread into the surroundings, so nothing around the event really heats up that much more.

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