Why do temperature get as high as billion degrees but only as low as -270 degrees?

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Why do temperature get as high as billion degrees but only as low as -270 degrees?

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It is not quite like that. If we use the proper temperature scale, there are simply *no negative temperatures*.

Then the question becomes: why in our everyday life the environment is mostly at 300 Kelvin, plus or minus a few tens of degrees, even though there are places in the universe where it is much hotter?

And the answer to that would require talking about our biology etc. It is not a question of fundamental physics.

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