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genneth
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All those who have written that temperature is the K.E. of particles... Stop it! It's simply wrong! Temperature is only to do with K.E. in ideal gases and related situation -- but temperature itself is much broader. Like a couple of posters have said, beyond +inf there are the negative temperatures. So the highest temperature possible is -0. The more "natural" scale for temperature is actually 1/T, so low temperatures correspond to a large, positive 1/T, and high temperatures correspond to a large, negative 1/T.