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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Just because it reaches the temperature of the sun doesn’t mean it has the same energy as the sun. It’s a not a miniature sun on earth, the experiment might be a few milligrams of material reaching that temperature for a few milliseconds, a negligible amount of energy that can probably be absorbed by the air surrounding it. Also yes, some of these experiments use equipment that’s “single use”, it’s expected to be destroyed by the heat.
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