Page 1 of 2
Hot potato...(scientists create hottest gas ever..)
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:20 am
by tnf
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:24 am
by tnf
Any second now we are going to be vapori
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:27 am
by tnf
someone got it.
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:30 am
by mjrpes
scientists create hottest gas ever... by locking a room full of women up for a day.
badumdedum!
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:33 am
by seremtan
well, it's certainly very pretty
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:10 am
by feedback
Go on Gordon, into the test chamber.
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:10 am
by Transient
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...
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:26 am
by andyman
so why didn't everything melt...?
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:35 am
by Dave
Magnets probably
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:22 am
by bitWISE
feedback wrote:Go on Gordon, into the test chamber.
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:25 am
by Massive Quasars
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:46 am
by Freakaloin
fuck all yall...
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:49 am
by DRuM
fuck u..
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:06 am
by Dave
This isn't R&R faggots, so keep your shit out of GD
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:09 pm
by Guest
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?
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:45 pm
by Survivor
So more energy came out than went in? Are we seeing our first steps into a world where oil is only used for plastic?
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:22 pm
by Canis
You stand in the middle of that catwalk, raise your hands, and laugh maniacally.
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:26 pm
by Wabbit
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..."
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:52 pm
by Chupacabra
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:40 am
by Quadhore
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?
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:54 am
by Chupacabra
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?
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:57 am
by Quadhore
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:29 am
by d3mol!t!on
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...
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:19 am
by ForM
Nifty news.
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:38 am
by andyman
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.