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 main way is magnetic confinement. You use a magnetic field to levitate the hot thing in a vacuum so it doesn’t touch the walls of the container. The only way it can heat up the container is by thermal radiation, but this can be mitigated with a reflective surface to bounce the radiation back
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