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Celsius does the same thing but with 5 cadence; what you explain is a habit - 70 Frankenstein being 21 science is just as helpful. For me how it works - 0 is f
by xxs 4y ago
Celsius does the same thing but with 5 cadence; what you explain is a habit - 70 Frankenstein being 21 science is just as helpful.
For me how it works - 0 is freezing point, 36 is body temperature (you learn that around 4-5y of age), and it's imprinted heavily. Half your body temp is about to begin feeling cold (in general). Picked body temp as it is 100F (originally 100F was meant to be the body temperature)
- PostOnce 4y agoFahrenheit (the man) was himself a physicist... he invented the mercury thermometer. That's pretty scientific. So calling it "Frankenstein and Science" is a little silly, especially when we have an absolute scientific scale (Kelvin). Actually, nobody complains that we use both Celsius and Kelvin, so what problem is there with a third scale for people, if the former two are for industry and science respectively?
- xxs 4y ago>So calling it "Frankenstein and Science" is a little silly, especially when we have an absolute scientific scale (Kelvin). That was unnecessary, an obvious joke about both, and how people feel about them, etc. C and K scale the same way, so C is just an offset K (or vise versa). Both C and F are arbitrary, of course - zero (as developer) being the phase change of the water does make more sense to me; again arbitrary.