Is there an absolute maximum temperature?

If there is an absolute zero point, -273 degrees or 0 Kelvin, shouldn’t there also be an absolute maximum temperature?

Asker: Bart, 16 years old

Answer

Temperature is proportional to the average kinetic energy of the particles. As a result, you can understand that there is an absolute zero point: it is the temperature at which the particles no longer move (in classical mechanics anyway). In the same way you can understand that there does not have to be an upper limit: the particles can move slightly faster (in classical mechanics anyway).

Is there an absolute maximum temperature?

Answered by

Prof Walter Lauriks

Physics Acoustics

Catholic University of Leuven
Old Market 13 3000 Leuven
https://www.kuleuven.be/

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