“human scale” is dismissed as even existing by the Celsius users
Celsius user here.
I find “I’m more used to it, therefore it makes more intuitive sense to me” is a perfectly understandable argument.
The problem with the human scale argument is that it makes it sound completely arbitrary.
To a human there is no objective difference between -1F, 0F or +1F. They are all about the same degree of “cold”.
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Did it never occur to you that Celsius is basically Kelvin with the zero point moved to human reference?
Human reference because >50% of our body is water. We are essentially water bags.
falcunculus@jlai.lu 7 months ago
This is interesting but not really justified historically. Celsius predates the concept of absolute zero, and water is very important to our world, not just ourselves.
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I was replying to a (now gone) post on how Kelvin is for science, Fahrenheit for humans ,and Celsius. It should give a perspective how to get from Kelvin to Celsius, not give a wildly off-topic history lesson.