Puny man(kind),but a speck in space, figures out how to...

[Iamme]

[Ain't I a tease? :) ]

.....generate more heat than a star can generate! And not just in theory but actually do it. And would any of you care to venture a guess as to how hot scientists were able to heat a swarm of charged particles? (Another interesting newpaper article.)

[Donks]

I'm going to say... a toasty 105? Celsius of course. I mean, that's like boiling water!

[Oolon Colluphid]

See here: http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=53947

[Timothy]

.....generate more heat than a star can generate!

Precision in language is necessary to avoid a grossly inaccurate interpretation.

"Briefly exceeding an average temperature over a particular volume than that generated by a star" is a *very* different thing than "generating more heat than a star can generate."

I am impressed, but not particularly surprised at the former.

I would not believe the latter as it is phrased, because if so the Earth would no longer exist.

- Timothy

[Soapy Sam]

Oolon Colluphid beat me to the link , but that's a discussion of temperature, not heat.

I actually would not be surprised if (weight for weight) humans generate more heat than stars merely by eating a hamburger. Of course we don't put out so strongly in other areas of the spectrum. (Or at least I don't).