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KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Celsius is the superior scale:
100° is the perfect temperature inside the Sauna.
0° is the perfect temperature of the water you jump in after the Sauna.
Resol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve never been to a sauna before, but are you guys okay with boiling yourselves and then immediately freezing yourselves? Doesn’t that seem very painful? Are you guys used to being Wim Hof all the time?
Deme@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The thing to remember is that air is a great insulator. Air at 100°C isn’t nearly as bad as say water or metal at the same temperature against the skin. In fact, the air that comes in contact with the comparatively cold human skin will cool down rapidly, lessening the sensation of heat further.
sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
100°C is a quite hot one. It could hurt your nose and ears a bit, especially if they having a steaming session.
The cold water (normally ~10°C) does not hurt at all. The first minute your brain is not able to differentiate the temperature at all. After that it gets quite quickly into: ohh I should leave!
Btw: you should try sauna at some point. Especially with the steaming it’s amazing. There are also milder ones with ~80°C, I would recommend at the start.
Deme@lemmy.world 6 months ago
100°C is nice. And what’s a steaming session? Throwing water onto the rocks for steam every now and then is just standard operating procedure.
Resol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hmm, I think I’d rather try that at some point.
DrMango@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes. It’s wonderful. It feels great physically and mentally. Wim Hoff is a bit crazy tho tbh
Resol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good for you.
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wim Hof, the guy who ahredded his intestines by giving himself an enema from a public water fountain while waiting to meet his estranged son?
Resol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wait, he actually did that???
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 months ago
You don’t actually start boiling at 100C lol
Resol@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah I might be kinda dumb sometimes
Asudox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I object. Kelvin is the superior one.
Resol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hmm, I sure love adding 273.15 to literally every single temperature I encounter
Wogi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh sure, so what are you, a Newton scale guy? “What is it outside? 6? Lovely. High of 12? Fuck that noise I’m staying inside at a nice comfortable 5.”
Aux@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Adding 273.15 is much easier than fucking with F.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Found the Scandinavian
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 6 months ago
I’ve never heard Celsius be explained more perfect than this. Thank you.
YoorWeb@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Isn’t basing a temperature scale on the freezing and boiling points of water a bit arbitrary in and of itself?
The reason they are arbitrary numbers in Fahrenheit is because they weren’t considerations when the scale was made.
Deme@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Water is everywhere.
Cooking, weather, etc. You are also water.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Except that water boils at different temperatures when exposed to different amounts of pressure.
So this works pretty universally on earth… Near the ground/ocean level (plus or minus a few hundred meters). Once you get outside of that specific condition the numbers move.
So yes, fairly arbitrary.
Let’s all switch to Kelvin.
BluesF@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It is, but if you look at how Farenheit was conceived it’s absurdly nonsensical. 0°F is the freezing temperature or some mixture of chemicals, and 90°F is a guess at human body temperature lmao.
And the freezing/boiling points of water are arbitrary except in that they are used to actually define both scales. They provide easily measurable standards.
MaoZedongers@lemmy.today 5 months ago
I think it’s the freezing point of brine
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
No, 0° was the lowest temperature recorded in the city Fahrenheit lived, and 100° was considered normal body temperature, with the quality of thermometer available at the time.
It’s quite arbitrary, but ends up mapping pretty nicely to comfortable ranges for humans.
force@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well TECHNICALLY it’s not based on the state change of water.
It’s based on the formula C = K - 273.15 where K = 1.380649×10−23/(6.62607015×10−34)(9192631770) * hΔν[Cs]/k
So even MORE abstract and unrelatable
ferralcat@monyet.cc 5 months ago
This makes no sense. K is not a constant. Is there a variable in there?
Temperature is a measure of entropy. It depends on the disorder in a system somehow.
blueson@feddit.nu 6 months ago
If ypu want to be radical, use Kelvin. At least it scaled identical to C so it’s easy to comprehend.
barsoap@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Every scale and unit is, ultimately, arbitrary. We all do have a very good understanding of what freezing and boiling water is, though, we don’t have a good intuition of “coldest day in some random place in some random year” is.
Venicon@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
I would like to dump on America for this but as Scotland is in the UK we have some unholy abomination of in between when it comes to our measurements.