From: Kennita Watson (kwatson@netcom.com)
Date: Mon Oct 27 1997 - 02:08:20 MST
> I heard somewhere that we've created temperatures 3
> times hotter than that of the inner sun, in fusion reactors, is that bogus?
I don't know, but according to my _1995 Information Please Almanac_: "The
temperature at the core of our Sun must be 20 million degrees centigrade, the
surface temperature averages 6,000 degrees centigrade, or about 11,000
degrees Fahrenheit."
I won't put us past having created a tiny region of 60 million degrees
centigrade for some fraction of a second -- hardly anything surprises me
any more -- but Yoicks!
Kennita
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