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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The surface of the Sun is only about 5500°C. Now that’s very hot, but not unachievable here on Earth. If you were to heat something up that much, it would glow the exact same color as the sun because of the way incandescence works.
The filament of an incandescent light bulb, for example, gets to about 2550°C and they were invented nearly 150 years ago.
The thing is the thing we get that hot are small compared to the Sun, and they have a low capacity for heat, so while it’s a very high temperature, it’s not that much energy, so when that heat leaks into the environment, it dissipates rather quickly.
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