Why does General Relativity break-down at Plank Temperature?

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Why does General Relativity break-down at Plank Temperature?
 

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GR is classical, not quantum-mechanical. The Planck scale (of energy, temperature, distance, and time) is the point at which quantum-mechanical effects are expected to become too strong to ignore.
 

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