4 ms·
If it's human temperature I would use something near 36.6 C, obviously? Probably 35 C. If it's air temperature outside I would use 0 C. If it's cooking temper
by ajuc 3y ago
If it's human temperature I would use something near 36.6 C, obviously? Probably 35 C.
If it's air temperature outside I would use 0 C.
If it's cooking temperature I would still use 0 C, not absolute zero.
Actually the only case in which absolute zero seems like the sensible answer I can think of is superconductors' critical temperatures and other physical stuff.
- IshKebab 3y agoNone of that makes any sense. There's nothing special about 35C or 0C. The whole point of the article is that it's visually misleading to have lines at arbitrary points. For your first example a line at average body temperature would make sense though.
- bigfudge 3y agoBut there is something special about both of those temperatures because they matter greatly to humans. This graphs should be designed to make referencing agains those values easy, where that is going to be useful.
- ajuc 3y agoHypothermia starts under 35 C Around 0 C it starts snowing instead of raining, and standing bodies of water freeze. If you have plants outside and it's not winter - they will die if it gets under 0 C. If you're driving - the road will freeze under 0 C and it's pretty dangerous to drive fast in such conditions. I'd argue there's no more important air temperature than 0 C on Earth-style planets. For cooking 100 C is a reference (water boils), but it's a bad starting temperature because you start lower than that. It's important to show room temperature (around 20 C), boiling temperature (around 100 C) and the maximum useful temperature (around 250 C). So starting at 0 C makes sense.