For some reason my brain dropped the ‘L’.
Sitting here wondering how Kevin does it…
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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Kelvin is objectively the most accurate. Celsius fans cope.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
They’re both calibrated against a stupid wet molecule that carbon based life on this planet is addicted to.
Introducing: the Nihon. 0Nh is the freezing point of Nihonium at 1 bar pressure, and 100Nh is the boiling point. Well, theoretical freezing and boiling points. Nihonium is one of those elements that doesn’t stick around long enough to be studied. But we thought really hard about it, did some shit with particle accelerators, and we’re pretty sure these numbers are good.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 day ago
The bar is defined to be close to the atmospheric pressure of one random planet called earth, why choose that as your pressure unit?
awful_neutral@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
It’s a nice day today. Can’t be more than 300 degrees
I’m not so sure
warm@kbin.earth 1 day ago
I'm coping, Celsius is just as accurate as Kelvin, because it based on it.
Kelvin - 273.15 = Celsius
madjo@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Depends on your measuring tool. A thermometer that measures in K but has an error margin of +2 to -2 K is less accurate than a thermometer that measures in F and has an error margin van -0.1 and +0.1 F
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Er… every system of measurement is accurate, tautologically.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I dunno. I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody took the time to invent fuzzy measurement unities.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Touché but you know what I mean. It’s the most logical to have absolute zero be zero.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
But there are multiple that have absolute zero at zero
0R=0K
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe in some scientific settings, but nowhere else. Why would it be logical to use a temperature system in every-day life who’s base is set to a temperature that doesn’t exist on Earth? Celsius and Fahrenheit are human-scale measurements, useful in daily applications. Celsius is a bit more logic-y, and Fahrenheit is intuitive.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wouldnt call farenheit accurate, but these days it is because its a static number in celcius, which is also an accurate and static measurement that can be repeated billions of times.
Not because 0 is 0 :p
In the original farenheit definition my 0 farenheit was not your 0 farenheit hehe
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Only Kelvin is valid thermodynamically because thermodynamics often needs absolute temperature for the math to work out right. Rankine is only for masochistic idiots who like fucking up their math and having extra stupid constants all over the place to compensate for their shitty unit system.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 23 hours ago
Perhaps, but that was not the statement. The statement was:
Functionally, a measurement system cannot be inaccurate. You might define a new temperature measurement in blargs, and define that the room you’re in right now is 1 blarg. It is now an accurate statement to say that the room is 1 blarg. At the time of measurement, it is not possible for that statement to be inaccurate.