Is the Planck temperature ($1.416×10^{32}$ Kelvin), the hottest possible temperature that can ever be reached, with absolute zero as it's opposite analog?
All I know is a particle with that temperature would have energy high enough, so that its gravitational force would be comparable to other forces and the behavior is not well understood without a theory of quantum gravity. But is it possible to have a state with a higher temperature ? If not, are there any thermodynamic reasons ?
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The Planck temperature isn't the hottest possible temperature in the same sense that zero Kelvin is a theoretical minimum. It is simply the temperature at which it's black body radiation is of the order of the Planck length.
The Planck length is the length scale at which it is theorised that quantum-gravitational effects become significant. Quantum-gravity is a hot topic of research and we simply do not have sufficient understanding of it to know the significance of the Planck length at this point.
So in summary, the Planck temperature is just the temperature at which we need to refer to quantum gravity to have a proper handle on what is going on. Since we don't have a proper grasp of quantum-gravity, anything that hot is just too hot to understand.