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Physicists Superheated Gold to Hotter Than the Sun's Surface and Disproved a 40-Year-Old Idea
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A reasonable approach, but melting is a phase transition. It's a collective behaviour. What the experiment shows is that quantum phenomena happen fast enough to make thermodynamics a bit strange. Probably because it is formulated in terms of continuous maths and atoms are discrete.