Comment on Half as Hot
yetiftw@lemmy.world 1 month agoabsolute scales are still arbitrary. you would probably want to use a scale that measures “perceived heat” which is different than average kinetic energy
Comment on Half as Hot
yetiftw@lemmy.world 1 month agoabsolute scales are still arbitrary. you would probably want to use a scale that measures “perceived heat” which is different than average kinetic energy
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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.
frezik@midwest.social 1 month 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.
yetiftw@lemmy.world 1 month 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
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Do you not understand what the word arbitrary means?…
yetiftw@lemmy.world 1 month ago
maybe you’re the one who doesn’t understand the ramifications of its meaning
frezik@midwest.social 1 month ago
Is there a way to distinguish between arbitrary and non-arbitrary? Or is literally everything ever arbitrary?
yetiftw@lemmy.world 1 month ago
literally every definition ever is arbitrary