53
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2024
53 points (93.4% liked)
Today I Learned (TIL)
6549 readers
23 users here now
You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?
/c/til is a community for any true knowledge that you would like to share, regardless of topic or of source.
Share your knowledge and experience!
Rules
- Information must be true
- Follow site rules
- No, you don't have to have literally learned the fact today
- Posts must be about something you learned
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The charges do not have a temperature. It is the their smashing into air that causes the air to heat up. You could heat air up waaaaayyyy higher with electricity, many orders of magnitude hotter. At least onto the 100 millions of Kelvin. My understanding of physics stops somewhere around that point, but I do not see a reason why that should be the limit.
As a side note, the less you have of something, the more irrelevant temperature becomes. You get hit by atoms, electrons, nuclei and other particles that have temperatures well into the billions(!) of degrees/Kelvin.