Hot potato...(scientists create hottest gas ever..)

Post by **tnf** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:20 am

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11732814/

Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.

That would cut considerable time off of heating my microwave burritos.

Check out those arcs.

Post by **tnf** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:24 am

Any second now we are going to be vapori

Post by **tnf** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:27 am

someone got it.

Post by **mjrpes** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:30 am

scientists create hottest gas ever... by locking a room full of women up for a day.

badumdedum!

Post by **seremtan** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:33 am

well, it's certainly very pretty

Post by **feedback** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:10 am

Go on Gordon, into the test chamber.

Post by **Transient** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:10 am

The article mentions that the reaction produced more energy than was put in. I'm curious to know if there's radiation like with nuclear reactions. They may be on to something there...

Post by **andyman** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:26 am

so why didn't everything melt...?

Post by **Dave** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:35 am

Magnets probably

Post by **bitWISE** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:22 am

feedback wrote:Go on Gordon, into the test chamber.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:25 am

Transient wrote:The article mentions that the reaction produced more energy than was put in. I'm curious to know if there's radiation like with nuclear reactions. They may be on to something there...

Hold your horses.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:46 am

fuck all yall...

Post by **DRuM** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:49 am

fuck u..

Post by **Dave** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:06 am

This isn't R&R faggots, so keep your shit out of GD

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:09 pm

That's cool... err I meant hot?

Seriously though that's pretty neat, I wonder how much energy is required to create this hot gas?

Post by **Survivor** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:45 pm

So more energy came out than went in? Are we seeing our first steps into a world where oil is only used for plastic?

Post by **Canis** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:22 pm

You stand in the middle of that catwalk, raise your hands, and laugh maniacally.

Post by **Wabbit** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:26 pm

Something's wrong with my eyes. I'm reading all the titles of these threads wrong. This one keeps looking like "Hottest Potato Gas Ever..."

Post by **Chupacabra** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:52 pm

due to the ad placement, for a second there i thought this was the whole article:

Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.

This is hotter than the interior of our sun, which is about 15 million degrees Kelvin, and also hotter than any previous temperature ever achieved on Earth, they say.

They don't know how they did it.

Post by **Quadhore** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:40 am

Ok, something I don't understand. Tempreture is measured with an upper limit that is dictated by how fast atoms can vibrate in their charged state. They can't vibrate faster than the speed of light, so how is 15 billion degrees attainable? Does the electromagnetic field act as a net to keep the particles in place?

Post by **Chupacabra** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:54 am

Quadhore wrote:Ok, something I don't understand. Tempreture is measured with an upper limit that is dictated by how fast atoms can vibrate in their charged state. They can't vibrate faster than the speed of light, so how is 15 billion degrees attainable? Does the electromagnetic field act as a net to keep the particles in place?

15 million you mean?

Post by **Quadhore** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:57 am

Oops, no I mean 3.6 billion. Got two parts mixed in my head while I typed it. I can see 15 million being attainable. but jumping thousands of milllions of degrees would surely mean that the speed of the vibrations was approachine infinity or at least way beyond the speed of light. Something isn't right.

Post by **d3mol!t!on** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:29 am

Quadhore wrote:Oops, no I mean 3.6 billion. Got two parts mixed in my head while I typed it. I can see 15 million being attainable. but jumping thousands of milllions of degrees would surely mean that the speed of the vibrations was approachine infinity or at least way beyond the speed of light. Something isn't right.

More energy coming out than going in doesn't sound so right, either

However, science isn't right anyway, because it's makes what was previously thought impossible happen.

Regardless, this stuff would be a pretty nasty war weapon...

Post by **ForM** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:19 am

Nifty news.

Post by **andyman** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:38 am

Quadhore wrote:Oops, no I mean 3.6 billion. Got two parts mixed in my head while I typed it. I can see 15 million being attainable. but jumping thousands of milllions of degrees would surely mean that the speed of the vibrations was approachine infinity or at least way beyond the speed of light. Something isn't right.

all it means is that it is beyond our comprehension for now. a while ago, a round earth was beyond our comprehension.