Physics and Chemistry
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01 / Physics and Chemistry 5,500 billion K Hottest temperature created by humans ALICE collaboration, Large Hadron Collider · CERN, Geneva, Switzerland See record ↗ -
02 / Physics and Chemistry 522 million K Highest ion temperature in a fusion reactor JT-60U · Naka, Ibaraki, Japan See record ↗ -
03 / Physics and Chemistry 300 billion rpm Fastest spinning human-made object Purdue University team led by Tongcang Li · Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States See record ↗ -
04 / Physics and Chemistry 4.13 x Highest fusion target gain National Ignition Facility · National Ignition Facility, Livermore, California, United States See record ↗ -
05 / Physics and Chemistry 100.75 T Strongest non-destructive pulsed magnetic field National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos · Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States See record ↗ -
06 / Physics and Chemistry 0 lb Heaviest object placed in quantum superposition Yiwen Chu's team, ETH Zurich · ETH Zurich, Switzerland See record ↗ -
07 / Physics and Chemistry 0.16 mg/cm³ Lightest solid material Graphene aerogel produced by Gao Chao's research team at Zhejiang University · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China See record ↗ -
08 / Physics and Chemistry 10.2 PW Most powerful laser by peak power ELI-NP High Power Laser System, developed by Thales and operated with IFIN-HH · Măgurele, Romania See record ↗ -
09 / Physics and Chemistry 69.26 MJ Most fusion energy released in a single pulse Joint European Torus (JET) · Culham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom See record ↗ -
10 / Physics and Chemistry 320 EeV Highest-energy cosmic ray detected Oh-My-God particle · Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, United States See record ↗ -
11 / Physics and Chemistry 1 billion m³ Largest neutrino detector IceCube Neutrino Observatory · South Pole, Antarctica See record ↗ -
12 / Physics and Chemistry 247 s Shortest time interval measured Reinhard Dörner's team (Goethe University Frankfurt, with DESY and the Fritz Haber Institute) · PETRA III synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany See record ↗ -
13 / Physics and Chemistry 0 in Thinnest material Graphene (Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov) · University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom See record ↗ -
14 / Physics and Chemistry 747.5 miles Longest distance for quantum entanglement Jian-Wei Pan's team using the Micius (QUESS) satellite · Between Delingha and Lijiang ground stations, China See record ↗ -
15 / Physics and Chemistry 16.6 miles Largest particle accelerator Large Hadron Collider (LHC) · CERN, on the France-Switzerland border near Geneva, Switzerland See record ↗ -
16 / Physics and Chemistry 151 K Highest-temperature superconductor at ambient pressure Pressure-quenched Hg1223 (mercury-barium-calcium copper oxide), developed by researchers at the University of Houston and the Texas Center for Superconductivity · University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States See record ↗ -
17 / Physics and Chemistry 13.6 TeV Highest-energy particle collisions CERN Large Hadron Collider · Geneva, Switzerland/France border See record ↗ -
18 / Physics and Chemistry 118 protons Heaviest element created Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Lawrence Livermore (oganesson) See record ↗ -
19 / Physics and Chemistry 45.22 tesla Strongest steady magnetic field Steady High Magnetic Field Facility, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Hefei, China See record ↗ -
20 / Physics and Chemistry 22:17 (1,337 s) at about 50 million degree Longest fusion plasma duration CEA WEST tokamak · Cadarache, France See record ↗ -
21 / Physics and Chemistry −459.7 °F Coldest temperature achieved in a lab University of Bremen / German research team · Bremen, Germany See record ↗
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