If only there was a way to tie Kelvin to some naturally occurring, everyday phenomena
Gobbel2000@programming.dev 19 hours ago
We need to collectively realize that both Celsius and Fahrenheit are mostly arbitrary and not more than practical conventions to assign numbers to temperatures. Kelvin makes more sense but is impractical for daily use. It’s just US-Americans distracting from the fact that most of their units are objectively bad compared to Metric by pointing out that Celsius is only marginally better.
ptu@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
balsoft@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
To be fair, it’s the other way around. Kelvin scale is Celsius scale shifted by -273.16 ℃.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Kelvin is the most logical. That’s why I measure all time by seconds since January 1, 1970
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 15 hours ago
ah yes, the absolute zero of time. love it!
smeenz@lemmy.nz 6 hours ago
Can you prove anything existed before that date ?
Starski@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
No, it’s just in response to the countless number of non Americans who constantly insult Americans because we have a slightly different measurement system that doesn’t effect the insulter in the slightest. It doesn’t help that anyone in the sciences in America do know metric, like fully, no one has a problem using it here and I know plenty of people even outside of the sciences that know enough metric to get by fine, you guys really need to get over your strange obsession with our measurement system.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
I don’t disagree that people venting about F can get overzealous. I still think there’s a significant improvement with C though. Not saying it’ll make American scientists better, I believe you that they do fine with it. But that’s also contingent on the rest of the units being imperial.
I often see conversion constants with the unit conversion baked into them, so you lose info on what was the empirically derived constant and what’s just there to allow you to multiply temperature in F against other thermo quantities that rely on relation back to Kelvin.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
affect
Starski@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Oh no, I guess my one spelling error means my entire point now means nothing, oh dang
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
somebody has to obsess over hurrdurr dumdum murican
voodooattack@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I write fiction and use Celsius. So what I usually have to deal with is the exact opposite of what you’re talking about.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Of the two, Celsius is less arbitrary because it is based on actual measurable reproducible things and not “we threw in some salts in water, and guesstimated a human body temperature”. It also makes a lot of sense in our post-industrial society because we do/don’t want to freeze/boil water almost every day for a variety of uses. Water is both an extremely important substance for humans and its freezing/boiling points occur in everyday life (unlike air or common metals).