Comment on Fahrenheit is exactly what is wrong with USA
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Celsius is based on water. 0ºC is freezing, 100ºC is boiling. Water is a good metric to go on, but it’s not very good for conveying to humans what is hot and what is cold, because even though we are made up of a lot of water, 0-100ºF is a scale that makes more sense to us. The equivalent in Celsius is something like -15 to something like 45ºC. And that makes less sense.
I’m a huge advocate of metric everywhere, but to say Celsius is objectively better than Fahrenheit is kind of silly.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Right, Celsius is not even part of the metric system. It is an honorary member of the SI units, but that doesn’t make it metric. It would make little sense to talk about kilo-degrees, or micro-degrees, because degrees Celsius doesn’t relate well to the amount of heat. That’s what Kelvin is for.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Kelvin is still rooted in Celsius, just by an offset of 273.15
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
For that matter, so is Fahrenheit, with the relationship (x + 459.67) × 5/9 K, where x is degrees F.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Let’s make a new scale, between 0 and 1
Zero is where everything turns solid, One where everything boils and vaporizes…