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Cool, what precisely is one degree K? What does it really mean? The answer is as about as arbitrary as basing it on human comfort levels - it's originally base
by falcolas 5y ago
Cool, what precisely is one degree K? What does it really mean?
The answer is as about as arbitrary as basing it on human comfort levels - it's originally based on boiling and freezing a specific composition of water at a specific pressure, then adjusted so the zero point is at a universal constant. That last is really the only meaningful part about it.
And practically speaking, the 0 to 100 C range is no longer even based on the actions of water - just as f is no longer based on human comfort.
- rootusrootus 5y ago> Cool, what precisely is one degree K? What does it really mean? Well that's my point :). There are no degrees in K, there are just K. So at least we could remove that little bit of ambiguity. Otherwise... > about as arbitrary as basing it on human comfort levels I agree. All scales are arbitrary. I actually think F has one upside over both K and C -- more resolution means fractional degrees are rarely used. But that's just a nitpick.