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It's called the Planck Temperature. It is the highest possible temperature that matter can exist at. It is approximately 1.41679 x 10^32 Kelvin. That's 100 million million million million million degrees. For comparison, the center of the sun bubbles along at icy 15 million degrees.

Scientists believe that our universe has already experienced the Planck temperature, although it went by so quickly you may have missed it. It occurred at 10^-43 of a second after the Big Bang, the great cataclysm in which the universe was born.

If you go beyond this absolute hot temperature, everything would turn to pure energy, all subatomic particles break down and become individual black holes destroying space and time. This is because the faster molecules move, the hotter they get. At 10^10K electrons approach the speed of light, but they also become more massive, so their temperature can continue to rise. At 10^32K, that great density and temperature would cause each particle of matter to become its own black hole, and the usual understanding of space and time would collapse. Which means the Planck temperature is as hot as things can get.

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