Hottest Man Made Temperature Ever - 5.5 Trillion °C, Recorded @ CERN's Large Hadron Collider

If anyone asks you 'What's up?', you may safely answer 'temperatures at CERN's Large Hadron Collider'. Jokes apart, research engineers at CERN have recorded highest ever man-made temperature; about 100,000 times hotter than Sun's core. Scientists collided lead ions to create quark-gluon plasma at 5.5 trillion °C. The new record is 38% higher than the previous record that was attaineded by colliding gold ions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), located at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York. The researchers however admit that their measurements aren't very precise and the energy measurements haven't been converted into degrees. But they have no doubt that it will reach the number quoted by them.

The scientists are hoping that their research will take them to the conditions just after the big bang. The scientists believe that the basic building blocks of matter viz. quarks and gluons were not confined to the protons and neutrons during the formation of the Universe. Our questions are naive: Why didn't the temperature melt the LHC?

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