Comment on Half as Hot

• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Kelvin is just our word for it, but that is the point of “no heat”. It isn’t arbitrary, there is no “negative kelvin” just like you cannot make something colder than absolute zero.

  So if you take the difference between “coldest possible temp” and “average summer temp”, then slice it in half, you’re getting temperatures that would kill most life on earth.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just to nitpick, there are negative kelvins. I don’t really understand it, myself, but I know it exists due to the specifics of how temperature is defined. Negative kelvins are actually extremely hot.

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  • yetiftw@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    just because it has a reason doesn’t make it not arbitrary. you can ultimately come up with a reason for all arbitrary decisions

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you not understand what the word arbitrary means?…

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      • yetiftw@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        maybe you’re the one who doesn’t understand the ramifications of its meaning

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is there a way to distinguish between arbitrary and non-arbitrary? Or is literally everything ever arbitrary?

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      • yetiftw@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        literally every definition ever is arbitrary

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