<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by tvanflandern</i>
<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by rousejohnny</i>
<br />The gravity would put a cap on the energy level the atoms could reach due to compression, thus generate a cap to what temperature they could reach. Or do temperature levels and energy levels not correlate in such a manner?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">There is no connection that I am aware of. Temperature is a measure of mean molecular vibration or oscillation speed, not the number of remaining electron orbitals during compression (which determine how ionized an atom is). -|Tom|-
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Certainly as pressure increases there would be increased contact, but I am thinking their is a certain speed/density ratio that would be reached that limits the number of hits that could occur. I know its a big reach, but it just makes sense in my mind for some reason. I keep thinkin of bumper cars, the faster they go, the more contact they make (more heat). Likewise, if the speeds stay the same and the rink is made smaller, there will be more contact (more heat). But at some point if the rink continues to shrink and or the speeds increase, the number of contacts would reach a limit. And in our case, energy level and gravity are the correlating factors which limit the number of hits possible.
I am probable way off, because if this were true someone would have figured it out by now.
