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I’m not sure how we’ve gotten from the state of water being a scale of temperature to specifically why 0 on that specific scale being variable… The choice to ch
by PUSH_AX 3y ago
I’m not sure how we’ve gotten from the state of water being a scale of temperature to specifically why 0 on that specific scale being variable… The choice to choose the state of water, regardless of its variability, wasn’t an arbitrary choice. That’s what’s being discussed. Arbitrary would mean it was chosen on a whim, which objectively it was not.
- rcme 3y agoThe choice wasn't arbitrary, but the result is arbitrary. As in, the choice of 0 is not tied to the underlying physics of temperature the way 0s of other units are chosen.