Physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider have been a bit of a loose end since discovering the Higgs particle, so they've broken the man-made temperature record for fun. And science.
The Alice heavy-ion experiment, a sister project to the more-famous Atlas and CMS experiments, collided lead ions to create -- for just a split second -- a quark-gluon plasma with a heat of around 5.5 trillion degrees Kelvin. Or Celsius. It doesn't really make much difference at temperatures that high.
By: Duncan Geere, Edited by: Nate Lanxon
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/15/feeling-hot-hot-hot
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