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Stolen from LinkedIn, I thought you guys might like a crack at this.

Physics nerds!

Freddie Mercury once sang: “Two hundred degrees, that's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit, I'm travelling at the speed of light”

But if Freddie had indeed achieved the impossible goal of travelling at such speed, what would be his temperature? (Feel free to use Centigrade/Celsius and please show your working)


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 12:16 pm
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Zero kelvin due to his infinite mass


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:12 pm
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cool as a cucumber


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:13 pm
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Cool as a cat more fittingly I suppose (with a new hat)


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:14 pm
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Doen't matter, he was the champion of the world. What he say, goes!


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:17 pm
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please show your working

Songs are art, not science - Knowing how the sausage is made doesn't make it more appetising.


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:18 pm
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Doen't matter, he was the champion of the world. What he say, goes!

thats not actually what he meant by 'champion'


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:19 pm
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Hot as a badger in May


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:21 pm
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Posted by: maccruiskeen

Doen't matter, he was the champion of the world. What he say, goes!

thats not actually what he meant by 'champion'

He also never claimed he was the champion alone.

 


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:28 pm
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Hot as a badger in May

Brian May is 37deg on the inside, just like everyone else


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:31 pm
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Speed of light in a vacuum is 300 000 000 m/s, if he was in a vacuum he'd be pretty cold


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:38 pm
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He won't be when he gets this light speed badger inside him!


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:40 pm
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Posted by: maccruiskeen

Doen't matter, he was the champion of the world. What he say, goes!

thats not actually what he meant by 'champion'

He also never claimed he was the champion alone.

 

Exactly. 4 champions of the world agreed on the wording so who are we lowely also rans to disagree.

 


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:47 pm
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Posted by: anagallis_arvensis

Speed of light in a vacuum is 300 000 000 m/s, if he was in a vacuum he'd be pretty cold

He'd be covered in fluff and hair too.


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 1:59 pm
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Exactly. 4 champions of the world agreed on the wording so who are we lowely also rans to disagree.

 champion doesn’t mean ‘winner’ in the context of the song. Why continue ‘fighting to the end’ if you’ve already won?

champion means the person chosen to complete or fight on your behalf - on behalf of the whole world in this instance. (Suggesting there’s something the whole world could agree on once 🙂 )


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 2:31 pm
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Posted by: maccruiskeen

Exactly. 4 champions of the world agreed on the wording so who are we lowely also rans to disagree.

 champion doesn’t mean ‘winner’ in the context of the song. Why continue ‘fighting to the end’ if you’ve already won?

champion means the person chosen to complete or fight on your behalf - on behalf of the whole world in this instance. (Suggesting there’s something the whole world could agree on once 🙂 )

Tell that to 45000 fans of the FA cup winning team at Wembley every year!

 


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 2:34 pm
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Posted by: anagallis_arvensis

Speed of light in a vacuum is 300 000 000 m/s, if he was in a vacuum he'd be pretty cold

 

A vacuum has no temperature.  His temperature would depend on if he is radiating more heat than he is generating internally.  NO conduction or convection to get rid of heat and not much radiation at 37 C so he would probably over heat

 


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 2:51 pm
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A vacuum has no temperature

mercury has no time for losers


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 2:55 pm
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He'd never get to lightspeed because he cannot run.


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 3:25 pm
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Posted by: thestabiliser

Zero kelvin due to his infinite mass

Surely infinite Kelvin due to the infinite mass / energy requirements?

If you think about it, they did also have a valid scientific theory that the rotation of planet Earth was in fact caused by sizably-posteriored members of the female population...

Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go 'round

More scientific theories in rock songs required. 


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 3:52 pm
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Climatology:

 

Love is like a heatwave


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 3:57 pm
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It depends on several things, not least the medium he's travelling in. But, we already know how hot he is, 200F = 366.483K (semi-interesting fact, note how the K is upper case because the unit Kelvin was named after a person. As indeed was W = Watt, N = Newton, J = Joules, but not m = metre or kg = kilogram)

 

So I think the salient calculation is that if we can use his temperature to estimate his energy, we should then be able to calculate how massive he is / was.

But we already know that, from the evidence of Live Aid and other similar data, in his day he/Queen were ****ing massive.

QED


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 4:23 pm
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A vacuum has no temperature

A perfect vacuum would be 0Kelvin...bloody fuvking freezing.

Space is supposed to be about -250°C I think.

 

Again...bloody cold Freddie's Mercury would have dropped pretty low imo


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 4:36 pm
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not to get into a pedantic argument 😉 but a vacuum can have no temperature as you need matter to have a temperature.  But space is not a perfect vacuum 


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 4:56 pm
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Posted by: anagallis_arvensis

if hewas in a vacuum he'd be pretty cold

So cold that he'd be Dyson with death.

 


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 5:05 pm
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He does say that he's "burning through the sky" though - does that not imply an atmosphere?


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 6:50 pm
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"I have something to say, it's better to burn out than fade away"


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 6:57 pm
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You can derive a temperature from the radiation passing through space even if there is no other stuff there.  So I am told.


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 7:48 pm
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not to get into a pedantic argument😉but a vacuum can have no temperature as you need matter to have a temperature.

True but my understanding is a perfect vacuum doesn't exist and zero Kelvin is the absence of temp where partices have no Kinetic Energy


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 7:49 pm
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We need more threads like this 🤣

I bet the linked in replies didn't conjure up some of the (hideous) mental images that some of you lot have.  


 
Posted : 17/04/2026 9:57 pm