We're taking hot and cold to their extremes in this episode. How cold can things really get? How hot can things really get? The answers are almost certainly colder and hotter than you can imagine.
Research Links:
Absolute Zero
Livescience — Kelvin Temperature Scale: Facts and History
Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — The Uncertainty Principle
SciShow — Absolute Zero: Absolute Awesome (YouTube)
NASA — Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background
ESA — Coldest Place in the Universe?
MIT News — MIT team achieves coldest temperature ever
Absolute Hot
PBS — Absolute Hot