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Physicists Superheated Gold to Hotter Than the Sun's Surface and Disproved a 40-Year-Old Idea
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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That's the problem, reading the quotes from my top reply even they seem to admit that what they are calling temperature is not what is usually called temperature in thermal equilibrium.
It's a subtle distinction.
High temperature/energy leads to entropy/liquification, but I think what this experiment demonstrated is there's a short delay or "entropy build up curve" between high amounts of energy and the "transmission" of entropy through the solid molecular structure to a liquid state.
I'm not sure if I'm wording all this correctly.