The highest temperature ever recorded on Earth

The highest temperature ever registered on Earth

     The scientists that work in the project Large Hadron Collider at CERN were able to achieve the highest temperature ever created by man, colliding lead ions to create a "subatomic hot soup" a plasma consisting in gluons and quarks.

     The researchers estimate that the temperature of this "subatomic soup " achieves on Terra an outstanding level of 5.5 trillion degrees Celsius.

     

     Recently, the scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory from New York have received the official certificate from the Guinness Book  confirming the record of the temperature reached at the RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider), of  4 trillion degrees Celsius.
The physicists have presented this success at the International Conference Quark Matter 2012, held in Washington DC. The researchers are trying for years to discover the secrets of the universe by understanding how this was since the begining.

     The scientists believe that these secrets are "hiding" in the very high temperatures of the "subatomic soup" created by the experts at CERN.  "Now we have the necessary tools that allow us to experience and understand what is in reality this matter and why it has these extraordinary properties," said Jurgen Schükraft, researcher at the CERN physics laboratory in Geneva.

     

     Now, the physicists from CERN are waiting for the confirmation of the results that will set the new world record.